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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8, The Dutch Island Prison, Foreigners Forbidden, The Great Peace, Clouds Over the Land of the Rising Sun.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two of the ships doing that scares some of the inhabitants?
(a) Firing muskets.
(b) Streaming smoke.
(c) Waving flags.
(d) Shooting cannons.

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

3. When was Japan last at war?
(a) 1597.
(b) 1621.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1810.

4. Why did the Dutch submit to such control by the Japanese?
(a) The Japanese didn't try to control the Dutch overly much.
(b) They were foreigners in a foreign land and did not want to offend.
(c) They believed the Japanese would continue to give them a monopoly.
(d) To gain the enormous profits of trade with them.

5. How did the Dutch live while maintaining trade status with the Japanese?
(a) Like slaves.
(b) Like princes.
(c) In very commodious quarters.
(d) Frugally but adequately.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take the Dutch to travel to see the head Shogun in Edo?

2. Who were not even counted in the census?

3. To whom did the Shoguns send a copy of the letter that Commodore Perry brought?

4. What did Commodore Perry do when the Japanese tried to board?

5. How many troops were quickly rallied?

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