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

2. 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) Because of the lawlessness throughout Japan.
(d) So they could learn proper manners.

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

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

5. What did Commodore Perry still not understand even after help from the Dutch?
(a) Why the other countries gave up on trading with the Japanese.
(b) Why the Dutch did not resist the strictly-regulated relations with the Japanese.
(c) Who the Emperor favored.
(d) The cultural and social structure of the Japanese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why couldn't the Japanese surround the ships?

2. What did Commodore Perry do when the Japanese tried to board?

3. What could the samurai do to commoners for disrespect?

4. What was Kayama pretending to be?

5. What do the people wonder that the ships might mysteriously be pushing to shore?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the daimyos?

2. What happened after Shogun Ieyasu died?

3. Describe the scene as the ships steamed into the harbor.

4. Who were the lower classes in the cities and what was one advantage to their class?

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

6. Who held the real power in Japan?

7. What had Japan been like before the time of Commodore Perry's arrival?

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

9. Who is Kayama; what did he want, and what was Commodore Perry's response to him?

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

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