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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 1898, Okakura resigned his official post in a state institution to found what?
(a) The East Asian School of Art.
(b) The Japanese Art Institution.
(c) The Asian Art Institute.
(d) The Chinese Art School.

2. 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) Black.
(c) Grey.
(d) Green.

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

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

5. Why has the exact meaning of Tao changed based upon context?
(a) The original meaning is lost in translation.
(b) Lao Tzu was uncertain about its conception himself.
(c) Lao Tzu did not want others to believe as he believed.
(d) The original text has been lost.

6. A typical Westerner might see in the tea ceremony a certain ____________________________ that he would then equate to the entire culture of Japan and its people.
(a) Peace and acceptance.
(b) Strangeness and rigidity.
(c) Quaintness and childishness.
(d) Respect and quiet.

7. Tea requires who to bring out its "noblest qualities?"
(a) A tea master.
(b) A tea leader.
(c) A tea artist.
(d) A tea chef.

8. What cannot be disputed is that, in his time, he was one of the greatest _____________ scholars, and his knowledge of this art was unparalleled.
(a) Oriental.
(b) Male.
(c) Art.
(d) Painting.

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

10. Okakura was born in 1862 to whom?
(a) A silk merchant.
(b) A factory worker.
(c) A potter.
(d) A professor.

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

12. What did Taoism challenge?
(a) Other religions.
(b) Authority and laws.
(c) Personal spirituality.
(d) Atheism.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The era that is the answer to number 69 was part of what dynasty?

2. These are different from ________________, which is a communistic thought.

3. Lu Wu could be considered what?

4. Have Westerners embraced tea fully?

5. This imagery is reflected in many arts, such as the martial art of ____________ which emphasizes absorbing the enemy's blows in order to exhaust him.

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