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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. Who was Nakajima?
(a) An interpreter.
(b) The Emperor's First Councilor.
(c) An American sailor born in Japan.
(d) A vice-governor of Uraga.

2. What was Kayama pretending to be?
(a) The Emperor.
(b) Governor.
(c) The head priest.
(d) The local police chief.

3. Who is Manjiro?
(a) The Emperor's brother.
(b) A Japanese who spent time in the United States.
(c) The head Shogun's samurai bodyguard.
(d) The Emperor's son.

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

5. What was one of the main missions of Commodore Perry's trip to Japan?
(a) To recruit the famous Japanese warriors.
(b) To find out if the Japanese still existed.
(c) Information gathering.
(d) Adventure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the smaller of the two swords that a samurai carried used for?

3. What were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?

4. What did the rich shopkeepers live modestly?

5. To whom did the Shoguns send a copy of the letter that Commodore Perry brought?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened after Shogun Ieyasu died?

3. Who were the samurai?

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

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

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

7. What was one consequence of the Japanese's isolation for the Americans?

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

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

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

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