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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As with vintage and concern with years with wine in Europe, different tea periods can tell us what about Japan?
(a) Its different technological advances.
(b) Its different eras.
(c) Its different soil types.
(d) Its different interests.

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

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

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

5. There are how many main eras of tea?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

7. Lu Wu is associated with what era?
(a) The Boiled Tea.
(b) The Burnt Tea.
(c) The Steamed Tea.
(d) The Black Tea.

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

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

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

11. America's own __________________ shows the power of tea.
(a) Green tea.
(b) Boston Tea Party.
(c) Asian restaurants.
(d) Tea time.

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

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

14. In 1890 the two split, perhaps due to what, and the fact that Okakura was outdoing his master?
(a) Differing beliefs.
(b) Strong egos in both men.
(c) Different life paths.
(d) Illness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fenollosa left to curate what museum?

2. Taoism emphasizes what?

3. Tea began as what and only gradually grew into a beverage?

4. What did some people call tea?

5. He died in 1913 after returning to Tokyo and contracting what disease?

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