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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 was the meeting with the Shogun like for the Dutch?
(a) Futile.
(b) Informative.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Humiliating.

2. In what year does the book open?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1788.
(d) 1833.

3. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?
(a) The value of their goods.
(b) How backward their society was.
(c) Modern Medicine.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

4. Where did Commodore Perry and the Japanese decide that the Americans could land?
(a) Kanagawa.
(b) Nagasaki.
(c) Fukuri.
(d) Harboro.

5. How many Japanese commissioners met Commodore Perry and his group?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in the time that Perry arrived were considered unproductive?

2. Of what does Manjiro assure the Shogun?

3. Who did Perry see still approaching Japan?

4. Who was Komei?

5. What do many historians think of Manjiro's influence?

(see the answer key)

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