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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. Okakura again emphasizes that tea can do what for a culture?
(a) Alter it.
(b) Destroy it.
(c) Speak volumes about it.
(d) Confuse it.

2. There are many similarities between Taoism and Zennism, including the emphasis on the individual and what?
(a) Symmetry.
(b) The community.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Self-concentration.

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

4. When was tea first brought to Europe?
(a) The late-1200s.
(b) The late-1400s.
(c) The late-1300s.
(d) The late-1500s.

5. Is there a mechanical method for making tea?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Usually.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. There is also an emphasis on what?

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

4. The editor sees ___________ distinct sides of Okakura which he would alternately exhibit.

5. With what is Taoism is mostly concerned?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is said about THE BOOK OF TEA and tea at the end of the chapter?

2. What was the opinion of tea?

3. Why is there so much fuss about tea?

4. What happened during the Mongol invasion of China?

5. Did all Japanese accept modern, Western attitudes and behaviors? How do you know this?

6. When did tea first arrive in the Western world? Who brought it?

7. What is the history of Taoism and tea?

8. What might a typical Westerner see in the tea ceremony?

9. How does Zennism oppose Buddhism?

10. What is teaism?

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