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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When could the Dutch leave the island?
(a) Once a year.
(b) During the three great festivals of the year.
(c) Only with special permission.
(d) Whenever they wanted to.

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

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

4. What were the Japanese "war correspondents" doing the next morning?
(a) Waiting by one American ship for permission to board.
(b) Drawing pictures of the ships.
(c) Interviewing some of the lower-ranked officers.
(d) Drawing pictures of the officers in charge.

5. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?
(a) They could not make it all that far.
(b) Perry wanted his letter answered first.
(c) They needed a few days to get water and wood.
(d) They did not want to treat with the Dutch since they were at war with them.

6. When did the Shogun end relations with the Spanish and Portuguese?
(a) When Commodore Perry arrived.
(b) Never.
(c) About ten years after they arrived.
(d) When they were at war with England.

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

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

9. What was the Emperor required to study?
(a) Classics and poetry.
(b) Sword fighting.
(c) Karate.
(d) Feng Shui.

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

11. What was forbidden to the farmers?
(a) Saki and smoking.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Always staying on their land.
(d) Marriage.

12. What was the meeting with the Shogun like for the Dutch?
(a) Informative.
(b) Humiliating.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Futile.

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

14. Where did messengers go as the ships were landing?
(a) Edo.
(b) To Mount Fiji to ask the oracle what to do.
(c) Seoul.
(d) Peking.

15. What were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?
(a) The two merchant vessels who came along with the military vessels.
(b) Two top sailing vessels.
(c) Two steamboats.
(d) The units deployed with the ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Portuguese arrive?

2. How large was the island?

3. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?

4. Why were the feudal lords required to leave their wives and children in Edo?

5. Who was a mere puppet?

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