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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 not know about the Emperor?
(a) He was dead.
(b) He was a young boy.
(c) He was basically a figurehead.
(d) He hated Westerners.

2. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?
(a) Give up their property rights.
(b) Live in small, isolated colonies.
(c) Stamp on Christian symbols to show they no longer believed.
(d) Leave Japan.

3. What was one thing Perry never did during his visits to Japan?
(a) Meet the Emperor.
(b) Enter Edo.
(c) Meet a Japanese woman.
(d) Meet the Shogun.

4. What did the Shogun do?
(a) Protected the nation.
(b) Dispensed justice.
(c) Not much; it was mainly a ceremonial rank.
(d) Carried out the Emperor's orders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Japanese do with the first Englishman to arrive?

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

3. With what are the Americans impressed?

4. What was the Emperor required to study?

5. Who finally came to one of the parties between the Japanese and Americans?

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