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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 happened when Shogun Ieyasu died in 1616?
(a) Being a Christian became punishable by death.
(b) Trade was completely abandoned.
(c) Trade was opened to any nation who came.
(d) Not much changed.

2. What did the rulers deliberately preserve in Japan?
(a) Individual freedoms.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) The right of the Emperor to mandate laws.
(d) An open policy towards foreigners.

3. Who was the first Englishman to arrive in Japan?
(a) Will Adams.
(b) William Johnson.
(c) Francis Drake.
(d) John Jakes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were not even counted in the census?

2. When was Japan last at war?

3. Why did Ido and Toda say nothing at the meeting with Perry?

4. About what percent of the population were farmers in the mid-nineteenth century in Japan?

5. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?

(see the answer key)

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