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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are these eras?
(a) The Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, the Steeped Tea, and the Cooked Tea..
(b) The Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, the Steeped Tea, the Cooked Tea, the Steamed Tea, and the Black Tea..
(c) The Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, and the Steeped Tea.
(d) The Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, the Steeped Tea, the Cooked Tea, and the Steamed Tea.

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

3. What do Taoists think about organized religion?
(a) It should be respected.
(b) It should be law.
(c) It should be made suspect.
(d) It should be required.

4. Tao, translated literally, means what?
(a) A Peace.
(b) A God.
(c) A Light.
(d) A Path.

5. What era followed this era?
(a) The Steamed Tea era.
(b) The Whipped Tea era.
(c) The Boiled Tea.
(d) The Creamed Tea era.

6. What represents a harmonious synthesis of these personalities?
(a) The Tea Tale.
(b) The Tale of Tea.
(c) The Tea Story.
(d) The Book of Tea.

7. How did tea grew in popularity?
(a) Steadily.
(b) Sporadically.
(c) Slowly.
(d) Quickly.

8. The person in #60 combined teaism with Confucianism, Taoism, and what other religion?
(a) Islam.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Hinduism.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Taoism and its successor, _____________, represent an individualistic trend in Southern Chinese thought.
(a) Shintoism.
(b) Zenithism.
(c) Zennism.
(d) Buddhism.

15. 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) Painting.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why has the exact meaning of Tao changed based upon context?

3. Tea was known in China since when?

4. In what century was a man named Lu Wu born?

5. He studied at an English-language university, and was fluent in what three languages?

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