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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16, The Treaty, Excursions on Land and Sea, Shore Leave, In the Wake of the Black Ships, Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Commodore Perry pretend to be?
(a) A scientist.
(b) An Admiral.
(c) No one but himself.
(d) A Senator.

2. What was the smaller of the two swords that a samurai carried used for?
(a) Ritual suicide.
(b) To display their rank.
(c) Eating and cutting.
(d) Ceremonies.

3. About how many naval men were aboard the ships?
(a) 1000.
(b) 560.
(c) 250.
(d) 150.

4. What were the two ships that were not steamships?
(a) Five-masted ships.
(b) One-masted ships.
(c) Three-masted ships.
(d) Tall ships.

5. What did Commodore Perry still not understand even after help from the Dutch?
(a) The cultural and social structure of the Japanese.
(b) Who the Emperor favored.
(c) Why the other countries gave up on trading with the Japanese.
(d) Why the Dutch did not resist the strictly-regulated relations with the Japanese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?

2. What are two exports the United States is hoping to gain from Japan?

3. Where did messengers go as the ships were landing?

4. When did the Portuguese arrive?

5. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?

(see the answer key)

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