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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. Under what conditions could the Dutch and English trade with the Japanese after the death of Shogun Ieyasu?
(a) Under no conditions.
(b) As long as the Emperor received 50 percent of the profits.
(c) As long as the products was nothing the Japanese produced.
(d) As long as they did not proselytize.

2. What did those in favor of trade want from the West?
(a) Their knowledge of the natural world.
(b) Their science, industry and wealth from trade.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Their literature and poetry.

3. Who was Nakajima?
(a) An American sailor born in Japan.
(b) A vice-governor of Uraga.
(c) The Emperor's First Councilor.
(d) An interpreter.

4. With what are the Americans impressed?
(a) The beauty of the city from the harbor.
(b) The numbers of their army.
(c) The strict protocol they followed.
(d) How kind the Japanese people are.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Manjiro?

2. What did Commodore Perry still not understand even after help from the Dutch?

3. Why were the feudal lords required to leave their wives and children in Edo?

4. Why did the English stop trading in 1623?

5. What did Commodore Perry pretend to be?

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