2. What was special about Commodore Perry being received by the Japanese?
(a) They greeted him with a special designation no other white man had received.
(b) They ignored the Japanese laws against such a meeting.
(c) He was the first Western ambassador to be received in over two hundred years.
(d) His parents had been missionaries to Japan.

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

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

5. When did Spanish Jesuits settle in Japan?
(a) 1771.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1549.
(d) 1824.

6. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?
(a) About 5 am the next day.
(b) 7 pm.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 5 pm.

7. Who was the first Englishman to arrive in Japan?
(a) John Jakes.
(b) Francis Drake.
(c) Will Adams.
(d) William Johnson.

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

9. Why did Ido and Toda say nothing at the meeting with Perry?
(a) They were not authorized to speak for the Emperor.
(b) They did not like Admiral Perry.
(c) They did not know English.
(d) It is illegal to speak to foreigners.

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

11. What group has held power for the last seven hundred years?
(a) The Ming dynasty.
(b) The Shoguns.
(c) No one group.
(d) The Komeiri dynasty.

12. Where did four enormous ships appear at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Near Seoul.
(b) Off the coast of Shimoda.
(c) Off the coast of Tokyo.
(d) Off the coast of Saipan.

13. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?
(a) The mountains of fire.
(b) Alien ships of fire.
(c) God's wrath.
(d) The birds of fire.

14. What did many of the daimyos believe?
(a) That the Shoguns would benefit by trade.
(b) That the Americans were inferior to the Europeans.
(c) That the Emperor should rule in favor of trade.
(d) That the West was inferior and that trade would lead to the victimization of Japan.

15. What are two of the ships doing that scares some of the inhabitants?
(a) Waving flags.
(b) Firing muskets.
(c) Streaming smoke.
(d) Shooting cannons.