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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. When did the Portuguese arrive?
(a) 1742.
(b) 1542.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1642.

2. What are the American ships ordered to do?
(a) Wait until the Emperor summoned them.
(b) Pay for the opportunity to see the Emperor.
(c) Return to the United States immediately.
(d) Go to Nagasaki and use the Dutch as go-betweens.

3. What was the Japanese contact with the outside world prior to the 17th century?
(a) More open and they traded with a number of countries.
(b) Totally closed.
(c) The author does not say.
(d) The outside world had not yet discovered Japan.

4. What does Commodore Perry have for the Emperor from President Fillmore?
(a) A chest of rifles.
(b) A letter.
(c) A chest of gold.
(d) A stallion.

5. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?
(a) Modern Medicine.
(b) The value of their goods.
(c) How backward their society was.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would be built at the place where the Americans landed?

2. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?

3. What was the impression of Japan by most of the Americans?

4. What did the groups of five families have to do?

5. What did the Japanese find odd about the Americans' eating habits?

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