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

2. What did the Americans undervalue of the Japanese gifts?
(a) Silks and porcelein.
(b) Canaries.
(c) Poems from famous Japanese poets.
(d) Swords.

3. Who returned to negotiate with Commodore Perry?
(a) Sumarai Koyohito.
(b) The Emperer.
(c) Shogun Ieyoshi.
(d) Kayama.

4. How many ships were in his sailing party this time?
(a) 4.
(b) 9.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

5. What was one thing that amazed the botantist Morrow?
(a) The Japanese irrigation system.
(b) The number of hybrid plants the Japanese had developed.
(c) The size of the Japanese grapes.
(d) The size of the Japanese apples.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Emperor do after 1872?

2. Where were some members of the squadron permitted to walk?

3. How did the Japanese and Americans threaten each other?

4. Where was the Commodore and some staff invited to tour?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the villagers of Shimoda behave at first?

2. What were some of the squadron members permitted to do?

3. How did the Americans impress the Japanese as the Americans came ashore?

4. Where did the Commodore and staff go and what bothered the Commodore about the women there?

5. How did the behaviors of the Shimoda villagers change and what was the result?

6. Where did Commodore Perry decide to visit?

7. What did Perry's arrival precipitate?

8. Who was Sam Patch and why was he terrified? What happened?

9. What were some of the impacts of the treaty signing between the Americans and the Japanese?

10. What was the first approach the Japanese took towards the United States request for a treaty?

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