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

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

3. What is the name of knights in Japan?
(a) Samurai.
(b) Defenders of the Emperor.
(c) Dragons.
(d) Shogun.

4. Who was Nakajima?
(a) An interpreter.
(b) An American sailor born in Japan.
(c) The Emperor's First Councilor.
(d) A vice-governor of Uraga.

5. How is the place where the enormous ships appear described?
(a) A mid-sized city.
(b) A small fishing village.
(c) A large city.
(d) An almost-deserted area where no villages were.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Japanese and Commodore Perry sign a treaty?

2. When did Spanish Jesuits settle in Japan?

3. When was the latest ratification that take place of the treaty?

4. What was Kayama pretending to be?

5. How did the Japanese slowly become after the English quit trading?

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