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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12, The Black Ships Return, The Treaty House, An Array of Gifts, The Grand Banquet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Japanese first say to Commodore Perry's request for a treaty?
(a) Some time stipulations would have to be put into place.
(b) American requests were forbidden by the laws of their ancestors.
(c) The request looked agreeable.
(d) They burned the treaty request in front of the Americans.

2. What show did the Americans present?
(a) The Wild West show.
(b) A minstrel show.
(c) Punch and Judy puppets.
(d) None.

3. What was Edo?
(a) The capital of Korea.
(b) The capital of Japan.
(c) The capital of China.
(d) The large city where the ships landed.

4. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?
(a) They could not make it all that far.
(b) Perry wanted his letter answered first.
(c) They did not want to treat with the Dutch since they were at war with them.
(d) They needed a few days to get water and wood.

5. Who was Nakajima?
(a) A vice-governor of Uraga.
(b) An American sailor born in Japan.
(c) An interpreter.
(d) The Emperor's First Councilor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was forbidden to the farmers?

2. What was the Japanese contact with the outside world prior to the 17th century?

3. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?

4. What did the Japanese say about shipwrecked American sailors?

5. Why did the Dutch submit to such control by the Japanese?

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