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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Japanese negotiators think they saved face?
(a) By making the Americans land at a deserted area of Japan.
(b) By not allowing ships or consuls into Edo.
(c) By allowing only 2 ships and 2 consuls into Edo.
(d) By not letting Commodore Perry met the Emperor.

2. What did the Japanese promise about American ships wrecked off Japan's coast?
(a) Help and protection.
(b) They would leave them be.
(c) Nothing was said about that.
(d) The money from the salvage of the ships would be turned over to the American owners.

3. What did Perry decide as far as Shimoda and Hakodate was concerned?
(a) To let half his ships go one place and half to the other.
(b) To establish consuls there and work his way inland.
(c) He had no plans as of yet.
(d) To visit them.

4. Who was Sam Patch?
(a) Commodore Perry's steward.
(b) The cook for most of the parties.
(c) A Japanese American.
(d) The bosun mate on Commodore Perry's ship.

5. What was Commodore Perry permitted to do?
(a) Establish a residency in Edo.
(b) Travel as close to Edo as the depth of the water would permit.
(c) Meet with the Emperor.
(d) Establish a residency in Yokohama.

6. Who was Abigail Jernegan?
(a) An American journalist.
(b) A female nurse aboard Commodore Perry's ship.
(c) The first foreign woman to land in Japan.
(d) A British missionary who had been in Hakodate for years.

7. What did Commodore Perry say could start a war?
(a) Cruel treatment of shipwrecked sailors.
(b) The Japanese fishing in American waters without paying a tariff.
(c) The Japanese treating with other countries and not the United States.
(d) The Japanese refusing to rescue shipwrecked sailors in their waters.

8. When did Perry arrive back in Japan for his second visit?
(a) February, 1854.
(b) June, 1855.
(c) January, 1856.
(d) June, 1858.

9. How many men did Commodore Perry bring with him on this trip?
(a) 1200.
(b) 250.
(c) 500.
(d) 1600.

10. When did the Japanese and Commodore Perry sign a treaty?
(a) April 30.
(b) March 31st.
(c) July 22.
(d) July 9.

11. What did the Sumo wrestlers do to demonstrate their strength?
(a) Cracked huge blocks of stone.
(b) Lifted a ship's anchor.
(c) Lifted kegs of American whiskey.
(d) Lifted huge bales of rice.

12. What is one thing the treaty called for?
(a) The right to prosecute Japanese nationals who violate U.S. laws.
(b) Fishing rights for the Americans.
(c) The right to travel freely throughout Japan.
(d) Peace between the U.S. and Japan.

13. Why did Perry's ships avoid getting too close to Edo?
(a) They didn't want the people of Edo to see the smoking ships.
(b) They were forbidden to do so.
(c) They would have gotten stuck on the river's sand.
(d) The interpreters and negotiators would be be pressured to commit suicide.

14. What stuck the Americans about the Japanese?
(a) Their singsong speech.
(b) Their way of removing their shoes indoors.
(c) Their deference to authority.
(d) Their flamboyant styles of dress.

15. What did the Japanese find odd about the Americans' eating habits?
(a) Eating meat.
(b) Not eating meat.
(c) Their alcohol.
(d) The use of glass and utensils.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where could consuls and agents from the United States live?

2. What was one major accomplishment by Emperor Meiji?

3. What did the Japanese say they would give to the American ships?

4. What did the Americans undervalue of the Japanese gifts?

5. What did Commodore Perry demand about the building the Japanese built for negotiations?

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