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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. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?
(a) About 5 am the next day.
(b) 7 pm.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 5 pm.

2. Who were not even counted in the census?
(a) Foreigners who married Japanese.
(b) Untouchables.
(c) Japanese who married foreigners.
(d) No one.

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

4. What was special about Edo?
(a) It was the largest city in the world at that time.
(b) It had magicians who could work magic to rid the place of the ships.
(c) It was where the largest army in the world was stationed.
(d) It had thousands of underground hallways where many people could hide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When could the Dutch leave the island?

2. What were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?

3. With what are the Americans impressed?

4. What did the Shogun do?

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

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