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

2. When does the lead shogun learn the news of the arrival of the ships?
(a) Within hours of the ships' arrival.
(b) Three days after the fact.
(c) The messenger went right to him.
(d) They do not tell him at all because he is dying.

3. Who in the time that Perry arrived were considered unproductive?
(a) Artisians.
(b) Samurai.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Peasants.

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

5. Why were the feudal lords required to leave their wives and children in Edo?
(a) As hostages.
(b) They did not have to leave them if they did not want to.
(c) Because of the lawlessness throughout Japan.
(d) So they could learn proper manners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Edo?

2. What did the Shogun do?

3. How is the place where the enormous ships appear described?

4. Of what does Manjiro assure the Shogun?

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

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