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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Fenollosa and Okakura went around Asia, doing what?
(a) Speaking Japanese.
(b) Encouraging others to treasure Japanese culture.
(c) Finding art and other objects to preserve.
(d) Teaching art history.

3. Lu Wu, in this book, describes what aspects of tea?
(a) One.
(b) Most.
(c) Four.
(d) All.

4. Tea is ________.
(a) Art.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Music.
(d) Dance.

5. With what is Taoism is mostly concerned?
(a) "Cosmic change" and the infinite nature of the universe.
(b) "Personal change" and what takes place in the self.
(c) "Conformity of the group" and unity within a community.
(d) "Earthly change" and spiritual growth.

6. Many Japanese treated heirlooms and traditional art as what?
(a) Little more than junk.
(b) Precious treasures.
(c) Everyday items.
(d) Family jewels.

7. He died in 1913 after returning to Tokyo and contracting what disease?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Typhoid fever.
(d) Influenza.

8. He studied under a Harvard-educated American, Ernest Fenollosa, who was instrumental in _________________ Westernization in Japan.
(a) Halting.
(b) Ignoring.
(c) Encouraging.
(d) Promoting.

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

10. The book also discusses well-known tea drinkers from history, and_________ methods of tea drinking which are to be avoided.
(a) "Gross."
(b) "Disgusting."
(c) "Vulgar."
(d) "Ugly."

11. Lu Wu could be considered what?
(a) "Our god of tea."
(b) "Our first apostle of tea."
(c) "Our tea Jesus."
(d) "Our tea man."

12. Zennism emphasized the abstract and the imaginary, whereas Buddhism emphasized what?
(a) The Golden Rule.
(b) Nirvana and reincarnation.
(c) Memorization of scriptures.
(d) Happiness.

13. The West may never truly _______________ the East.
(a) Accept.
(b) Like.
(c) Trust.
(d) Understand.

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

15. The era that is the answer to number 69 was part of what dynasty?
(a) The Sung.
(b) Qin Dynasty.
(c) Han Dynasty.
(d) The Western Zhou dynasty.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Boiled Tea era used tea as what?

2. When was tea first brought to Europe?

3. Zennism believes that nothing is real except what?

4. Are stereotypes breaking down with modernization?

5. Okakura again emphasizes that tea can do what for a culture?

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