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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Boiled Tea era used tea as what?
(a) A bartering tool.
(b) A sort of poetry, emphasizing its symbolic nature.
(c) A way to relax.
(d) A medicine.

2. Are stereotypes breaking down with modernization?
(a) Yes.
(b) Only at first.
(c) No.
(d) Only slightly.

3. What is this book considered?
(a) The Secrets of Tea.
(b) The Code of Tea.
(c) The Text of Tea.
(d) The Tea Bible.

4. What is another side?
(a) The self-assured.
(b) The friend.
(c) The knowing one.
(d) The sentimentalist.

5. Emperor Huei Tsung lavished much wealth on the attainment of rare species of tea, and declared which tea to be the most rare and best?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Grey.
(d) Black.

6. Who has developed a whole host of bizarre and incorrect stereotypes for Asians?
(a) The East.
(b) The West.
(c) The North.
(d) The South.

7. For what was tea praised?
(a) Its abilities to reduce stress.
(b) Its abilities to reduce fatigue, empower the soul, and repair eyesight.
(c) Its abilities to grow in all climates.
(d) Being inexpensive, medicinal, and tasting good.

8. The editor sees ___________ distinct sides of Okakura which he would alternately exhibit.
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

9. Through consecrated meditation, what can be attained?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Nirvana.
(c) Understanding of life.
(d) Supreme self-knowledge and self-realization.

10. Tea began as what and only gradually grew into a beverage?
(a) A poison.
(b) A drug.
(c) A lotion.
(d) A medicine.

11. In what century was a man named Lu Wu born?
(a) The 6th.
(b) The 7th.
(c) The 8th.
(d) The 5th.

12. Mankind is well known for investing great care in __________ things.
(a) Useless.
(b) Medium.
(c) Large.
(d) Small.

13. For whom did tea became a favorite?
(a) Monks and priests.
(b) Emperors and their courts.
(c) Kings and Queens.
(d) Villagers and farmers.

14. Is it appropriate for Westerners to learn tea's origins and how tea is used elsewhere?
(a) No. It will never be appropriate.
(b) Possibly.
(c) Yes.
(d) No, not yet.

15. What is one of these sides?
(a) The great artisan.
(b) The great scholar.
(c) The great student.
(d) The great painter.

Short Answer Questions

1. He studied at an English-language university, and was fluent in what three languages?

2. What did some people call tea?

3. Fenollosa left to curate what museum?

4. What is something that Westerners have invested in in excess?

5. Okakura was born in 1862 to whom?

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