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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-4, Aliens Arrive, The Black Ships of the Evil Men, His High and Might Mysteriousness, Landing on Sacred Soil (The Audience Hall).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stunned the Japanese about the sailors?
(a) Some were women.
(b) Some were Chinese.
(c) Some were black.
(d) How many there were.

2. What were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?
(a) Two top sailing vessels.
(b) The two merchant vessels who came along with the military vessels.
(c) Two steamboats.
(d) The units deployed with the ships.

3. Why couldn't the Americans stay in Edo Bay?
(a) They were scaring the fish and depriving the city of food.
(b) It was against Japanese law.
(c) They were not invited.
(d) They were polluting it.

4. Where did messengers go as the ships were landing?
(a) To Mount Fiji to ask the oracle what to do.
(b) Seoul.
(c) Peking.
(d) Edo.

5. Where did four enormous ships appear at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Off the coast of Shimoda.
(b) Off the coast of Saipan.
(c) Off the coast of Tokyo.
(d) Near Seoul.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people lived in Edo?

2. What does Commodore Perry have for the Emperor from President Fillmore?

3. What were the two ships that were not steamships?

4. What was Kayama pretending to be?

5. What was Edo?

(see the answer key)

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