The Book of Tea Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Okakura Kakuzō
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Book of Tea Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Okakura Kakuzō
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Zennism believes that nothing is real except what?
(a) God.
(b) Mankind.
(c) Earth.
(d) The human mind.

2. What was the name of the book he wrote?
(a) Chong Kim.
(b) Chin Chan.
(c) Ch'a Ching.
(d) Ching Ching.

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

4. These are different from ________________, which is a communistic thought.
(a) Non-Confucianism.
(b) Confucianism.
(c) Daoism.
(d) Neo-Confucianism.

5. Why does Lu Wu prefer blue tea cups?
(a) So they could blend with the green of the tea.
(b) So they could contrast the best with the green color of the tea.
(c) Because blue is the color of the sea.
(d) Because blue is the most expensive glaze.

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

7. Okakura went to America with many _____________________ to sell to Americans.
(a) Prints.
(b) Drawings.
(c) Wares.
(d) Paintings.

8. It is unfortunate that Taoism and Zennism, which are so intimately linked to Teaism, have had no very good translations for who to digest properly?
(a) Americans.
(b) Westerners.
(c) Non-Asians.
(d) Easterners.

9. Okakura worked to make the Boston Museum a world-famous repository of what?
(a) Chinese art.
(b) Korean art.
(c) Asian art.
(d) Japanese art.

10. The chief contribution of Taoism to Asiatic life is what?
(a) Communal living.
(b) Peace.
(c) Tea.
(d) Aesthetic theory.

11. Okakura used tea as a symbol for what in East Asia?
(a) Art.
(b) Love.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Life.

12. Okakura could be brilliant but also ________________; visionary but suffering from cultural myopia, arrogant and pedantic but sentimental.
(a) Ignorant.
(b) Unsure.
(c) Unintelligent.
(d) Infantile.

13. The year _______ is the first written mention of tea in the Western world.
(a) 859.
(b) 879.
(c) 869.
(d) 849.

14. Some statesmen, philosophers, and artists of the West could be referred to as what?
(a) "Tea-aestheticians."
(b) "Tea-philosophers."
(c) "Tea-lovers."
(d) "Tea-fiends."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been beneficial to this "religion of aestheticism?"

2. Would the state fund Okakura's school?

3. What does Zennism mean?

4. What did some claim about tea?

5. Lu Wu insists that what kind of water is the best tea to brew with?

(see the answer keys)

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