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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. 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) It is illegal to speak to foreigners.
(d) They did not like Admiral Perry.

2. What was Kayama pretending to be?
(a) The local police chief.
(b) The head priest.
(c) The Emperor.
(d) Governor.

3. What was the Emperor required to study?
(a) Classics and poetry.
(b) Karate.
(c) Feng Shui.
(d) Sword fighting.

4. About how many samurai were there in Japan when Perry arrived?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 350,000.
(c) 210,000.
(d) 100,000.

5. What did Commodore Perry do when the Japanese tried to board?
(a) Ordered his men to help them aboard.
(b) The Japanese did not yet try to board the ships.
(c) Ordered his men to keep them away.
(d) Invited them to his quarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the English stop trading in 1623?

2. What did many of the daimyos believe?

3. What are the American ships ordered to do?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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