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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. Who was a mere puppet?
(a) The Head of the Council.
(b) Amaterasu.
(c) The most powerful Shogun.
(d) The Emperor.

2. When does the lead shogun learn the news of the arrival of the ships?
(a) The messenger went right to him.
(b) Three days after the fact.
(c) Within hours of the ships' arrival.
(d) They do not tell him at all because he is dying.

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

4. Who was Amaterasu?
(a) The sun god.
(b) The sun goddess.
(c) The moon goddess.
(d) The god of the stars.

5. Why did Ido and Toda say nothing at the meeting with Perry?
(a) They were not authorized to speak for the Emperor.
(b) They did not know English.
(c) They did not like Admiral Perry.
(d) It is illegal to speak to foreigners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group has held power for the last seven hundred years?

2. What did Commodore Perry not know about the Emperor?

3. What happened in Edo when the messengers arrived?

4. What was special about Commodore Perry being received by the Japanese?

5. Why couldn't the Japanese surround the ships?

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