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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 group has held power for the last seven hundred years?
(a) The Ming dynasty.
(b) No one group.
(c) The Shoguns.
(d) The Komeiri dynasty.

2. What were the two ships that were not steamships?
(a) Three-masted ships.
(b) Tall ships.
(c) Five-masted ships.
(d) One-masted ships.

3. What do the people wonder that the ships might mysteriously be pushing to shore?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A huge oven of fire.
(c) A raging dragon.
(d) Active volcanoes.

4. How many troops were quickly rallied?
(a) About 4,000.
(b) About 100,000
(c) About 17,000.
(d) About 29,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the American ships ordered to do?

2. What do the fishermen do as the ships are coming in?

3. What are two exports the United States is hoping to gain from Japan?

4. What are two of the ships doing that scares some of the inhabitants?

5. Where did messengers go as the ships were landing?

(see the answer key)

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