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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What could merchants buy?
(a) Anything except swords.
(b) Everything.
(c) There was a short, prescribed list.
(d) Into the higher class.

2. What did the Japanese who served the Dutch swear?
(a) To protect the traders with their lives.
(b) None.
(c) A blood oath not to become friendly towards the traders.
(d) Not to give away any of the traders secrets.

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

4. Why were the feudal lords required to leave their wives and children in Edo?
(a) They did not have to leave them if they did not want to.
(b) As hostages.
(c) So they could learn proper manners.
(d) Because of the lawlessness throughout Japan.

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

6. Who were not even counted in the census?
(a) Foreigners who married Japanese.
(b) Japanese who married foreigners.
(c) Untouchables.
(d) No one.

7. Of what does Manjiro assure the Shogun?
(a) That the Americans did not want Japan's land.
(b) That Commodore Perry is a high-ranking American.
(c) That the Americans were less agressive than Europeans.
(d) That the Americans were peaceful.

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

9. How did the Army of Japan look?
(a) Under equipped.
(b) Like something out of King Arthur's time.
(c) Sloppy and unprepared.
(d) Extremely well disciplined.

10. Who were thought to be ruffians?
(a) The peasants.
(b) The Ronin samurai.
(c) The artisians.
(d) The daimyo.

11. How large was the island?
(a) 600 yards by 120 yards.
(b) 1000 yards by 1000 yards.
(c) 200 yards by 80 yards.
(d) 4000 yards by 500 yards.

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

13. About how many samurai were there in Japan when Perry arrived?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 210,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 350,000.

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

15. What was one of the characteristics of this era in question #73?
(a) The wars kept the food supplies scant.
(b) There was much fighting among the Shogun families.
(c) The peasants often were able to move into the upper classes.
(d) The arts flourished.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was special about Edo?

2. When was Japan last at war?

3. What did those in favor of trade want from the West?

4. Why couldn't the Americans stay in Edo Bay?

5. Who comprised the lower class in the cities?

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