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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 did Commodore Perry still not understand even after help from the Dutch?
(a) The cultural and social structure of the Japanese.
(b) Why the Dutch did not resist the strictly-regulated relations with the Japanese.
(c) Who the Emperor favored.
(d) Why the other countries gave up on trading with the Japanese.

2. What was Edo?
(a) The capital of Korea.
(b) The capital of China.
(c) The capital of Japan.
(d) The large city where the ships landed.

3. What did the rich shopkeepers live modestly?
(a) They were taxed so much, they had little money.
(b) So they did not lose their stores to the government.
(c) So as not to engender envy.
(d) They were strict Buddhists.

4. What is the name of knights in Japan?
(a) Dragons.
(b) Shogun.
(c) Samurai.
(d) Defenders of the Emperor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Komei?

2. How many people lived in Edo?

3. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?

4. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?

5. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?

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