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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12, The Black Ships Return, The Treaty House, An Array of Gifts, The Grand Banquet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Americans play when they reached the shore?
(a) Hail to the Emperor.
(b) America the Beautiful.
(c) The Star Spangled Banner.
(d) Nothing.

2. What was the impression of Japan by most of the Americans?
(a) They were a cultured, civilized nation.
(b) They were barbarians.
(c) They were unreasonable.
(d) They were bloodthirsty.

3. What stunned the Japanese about the sailors?
(a) How many there were.
(b) Some were black.
(c) Some were Chinese.
(d) Some were women.

4. How many ships were in his sailing party this time?
(a) 9.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 2.

5. What did the groups of five families have to do?
(a) Go to Edo every year for census.
(b) Swear allegience to each other.
(c) Pay seventy percent of all their earnings to the daimyo.
(d) Monitor one another's behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the two ships that were not steamships?

2. How did the Dutch live while maintaining trade status with the Japanese?

3. How did the Army of Japan look?

4. What is the name of knights in Japan?

5. Why couldn't the Japanese surround the ships?

(see the answer key)

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