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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Edo?
(a) The capital of Korea.
(b) The capital of China.
(c) The large city where the ships landed.
(d) The capital of Japan.

2. Why couldn't the Americans stay in Edo Bay?
(a) They were not invited.
(b) They were polluting it.
(c) They were scaring the fish and depriving the city of food.
(d) It was against Japanese law.

3. How long did it take the Dutch to travel to see the head Shogun in Edo?
(a) Several days each way.
(b) A month each way.
(c) A week each way.
(d) Two weeks each way.

4. What did those in favor of trade want from the West?
(a) Their literature and poetry.
(b) Their science, industry and wealth from trade.
(c) Their knowledge of the natural world.
(d) Nothing.

5. What do the people wonder that the ships might mysteriously be pushing to shore?
(a) A raging dragon.
(b) Active volcanoes.
(c) A huge oven of fire.
(d) Nothing.

6. What Shoguns ruled Japan when Perry arrived?
(a) The Tokugawa Shoguns.
(b) The Yoshinaki Shoguns.
(c) The Ieyasu Shoguns.
(d) The Kamakura Shoguns.

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

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

9. How did the Japanese slowly become after the English quit trading?
(a) More tolerant of other religions.
(b) More open to foreign trade.
(c) Extreme isolationist.
(d) More set in their own religion.

10. Under what conditions could the Dutch and English trade with the Japanese after the death of Shogun Ieyasu?
(a) As long as they did not proselytize.
(b) Under no conditions.
(c) As long as the Emperor received 50 percent of the profits.
(d) As long as the products was nothing the Japanese produced.

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

12. What stunned the Japanese about the sailors?
(a) How many there were.
(b) Some were Chinese.
(c) Some were women.
(d) Some were black.

13. What did the Japanese do with the first Englishman to arrive?
(a) They put him in prison for the rest of his life.
(b) They sent him away.
(c) Made him advisor and a samurai.
(d) Eventually they killed him.

14. What was the impression of Japan by most of the Americans?
(a) They were bloodthirsty.
(b) They were barbarians.
(c) They were a cultured, civilized nation.
(d) They were unreasonable.

15. What was special about Edo?
(a) It was the largest city in the world at that time.
(b) It had thousands of underground hallways where many people could hide.
(c) It was where the largest army in the world was stationed.
(d) It had magicians who could work magic to rid the place of the ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?

2. How large was the island?

3. What were the Japanese "war correspondents" doing the next morning?

4. What could merchants buy?

5. When was Japan last at war?

(see the answer keys)

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