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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of structure did Japan have at this time?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Dictatorship.
(c) Feudal.
(d) Constitutional monarchy.

2. How did the Dutch live while maintaining trade status with the Japanese?
(a) In very commodious quarters.
(b) Like princes.
(c) Frugally but adequately.
(d) Like slaves.

3. How many troops were quickly rallied?
(a) About 100,000
(b) About 4,000.
(c) About 29,000.
(d) About 17,000.

4. What is illegal for the Emperor to do without permission of the government?
(a) Get married.
(b) Order an execution.
(c) Leave the palace.
(d) Sign a law.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the characteristics of this era in question #73?

2. What group has held power for the last seven hundred years?

3. Who was the first Englishman to arrive in Japan?

4. What happened in Edo when the messengers arrived?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the two opposing camps to the idea of a treaty with the Americans.

2. Describe the scene when the Susquehanna and Mississippi landed.

3. What was special about the Englishman, Will Adams?

4. What did the Japanese try to do and what did Commodore Perry order his men to do and why?

5. Describe the time before this setting when the Japanese were not cut off from the rest of the world.

6. What was Edo's first response to the messengers and why is it amazing?

7. What happened after Shogun Ieyasu died?

8. Describe the role of the Emperor of Japan at that time.

9. Who did the Americans awaken to see the next morning and what would they be considered today?

10. What percentage of Japanese were farmers and what was their life like?

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