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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. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?
(a) 7 pm.
(b) About 5 am the next day.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 5 pm.

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

3. Why couldn't the Japanese surround the ships?
(a) They did not have enough manpower.
(b) They didn't want to surround the burning ships and catch their ships on fire.
(c) They didn't have any war ships of their own.
(d) They could not outrun the ships.

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

5. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?
(a) Alien ships of fire.
(b) The mountains of fire.
(c) The birds of fire.
(d) God's wrath.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why couldn't the Americans stay in Edo Bay?

2. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?

3. When did Spanish Jesuits settle in Japan?

4. What were the Japanese "war correspondents" doing the next morning?

5. Of what does Manjiro assure the Shogun?

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