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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do many historians think of Manjiro's influence?
2. What was Kayama pretending to be?
3. What was forbidden to the farmers?
4. How large was the island?
5. What was one of the characteristics of this era in question #73?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the role of the Emperor of Japan at that time.
2. Describe the Dutch's visit to Edo to see the head Shogun.
3. What was the Tokugawa period and some of its positive aspects?
4. Who were the lower classes in the cities and what was one advantage to their class?
5. What was one consequence of the Japanese's isolation for the Japanese?
6. Who is Kayama; what did he want, and what was Commodore Perry's response to him?
7. Describe the scene when the Susquehanna and Mississippi landed.
8. What had Japan been like before the time of Commodore Perry's arrival?
9. Who is Nakajima and what does he tell the Americans and what was Perry's response?
10. Where did messengers ride when the ships were spotted, and what was the consequence?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?Can an historical fiction have a plot?
2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?
3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements in Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun. (The subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss one of the following:
1. Define irony in literary terms. Discuss the irony of the situation of the fact that the Dutch had been treating with the Japanese for many years and lived like slaves; whereas, the Americans were given comparative royal treatment.
2. Define symbolism in literary terms. Discuss the use and meaning of five symbols you choose to analyze from Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun. What do they symbolize? Is the symbolism obvious? Effective? Does the symbolism contribute to the enjoyment of reading?
3. Discuss five literary devices that occur in Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogunand how they are used. Are they effective? Do they add or detract from the reading of the book? Why or why not. Some possible techniques: Allusion, connotation, denouement, dialogue, flashback, figurative language, motif, metaphor, narrator, point of view, simile, mood, and puns.
Essay Topic 3
The setting of Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun is quite important. Research the feudal system under which Japan existed in the mid 19th century and answer the following questions:
1. How was the feudal system organized? Could one move from the class of their birth to another class? Who was responsible for the protection of the peoples of Japan? Who made the decisions?
2. Discuss three advantages and three disadvantages of the feudal system.
3. What did the Americans seem to think of the feudal system? Give examples.
4. Did your research reveal any countries today that are organized in a feudal-like system? Discuss any that are mentioned.
5. Why do you think most countries abandoned the feudal system?
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