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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 did the Japanese say about shipwrecked American sailors?
2. What did the Emperor do after 1872?
3. What was one thing the Americans did that amazed the Japanese?
4. What did the Japanese first say to Commodore Perry's request for a treaty?
5. Who was Sam Patch?
Short Essay Questions
1. Enumerate the major points of the treaty that was signed between the United States and Japan.
2. What made Perry decide to sail to Japan despite the Shogun's death?
3. What gifts most fascinated the Japanese?
4. When was the Treaty House completed and what did Commodore Perry demand that they change?
5. What were some of the squadron members permitted to do?
6. What did Perry's arrival precipitate?
7. What sort of gifts did the Americans give the higher ranked Japanese?
8. How did the Americans impress the Japanese as the Americans came ashore?
9. What was the first approach the Japanese took towards the United States request for a treaty?
10. How did the two cultures meet face to face and what did the people of the two countries think of the other?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One major theme of Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun is that of the meeting of two dissimilar cultures and how the two cultures evolved to signing a treaty of mutual benefit. Discuss the following:
1. Compare/contrast some of the major cultural differences between the Americans and Japanese. Consider differences in the area of food, art, gender, and warfare.
2. The Japanese and the Americans each thought the other group barbaric. Discuss the term barbaric and analyze the ways in which each group applied the word to the other. Is either group accurate in naming the other barbaric? Discuss with examples.
3. Discuss the advantages of two cultures having a mutual exchange of ideas, trade and military support.
4. Discuss the disadvantages of two cultures having a mutual exchange of ideas, trade and military support.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the following:
1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?
2. Analyze and discuss Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if it is a successful novel. Explain your rationale with specific examples.
3. Do you think the fact that Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun falls within the genre of historical fiction changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Many novels, and perhaps a majority, of novels ends on a happy note. Discuss the following:
1. Why do you think many (most?) people want what they perceive as a happy or good ending to a novel? Explain your opinion. Do you? Why or why not? Do you think Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun has a "happy" ending?
2. What are three reasons to read fiction? Discuss each one in light of Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun and whether or not it fulfills all three, two or one of the reasons you mention. Give examples as to why Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun is or is not successful in fulfilling the reasons you discuss.
3. Do you think reading solely for entertainment is as good a reason to read as any other? Why or why not? Can any work of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how poorly written, enlighten, teach, stimulate thought? Why or why not?
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