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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tea began as what and only gradually grew into a beverage?
(a) A drug.
(b) A medicine.
(c) A poison.
(d) A lotion.

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

3. What is another side?
(a) The art teacher.
(b) The visionary/messiah.
(c) The monk.
(d) The educator.

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

5. What did some claim about tea?
(a) It was expensive.
(b) It cured health problems.
(c) It was dirty.
(d) It caused health problems.

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

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

8. Taoism emphasizes what?
(a) Love and kindness.
(b) Unity and balance.
(c) Wholeness and totality.
(d) Simplicity and peace.

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

10. It is said that a man named Kwanyin presented to his master Lao Tzu tea in what?
(a) One of the first tea ceremonies.
(b) The first known tea ceremony.
(c) A large tea cup.
(d) A large tea ceremony.

11. The Boiled Tea era used tea as what?
(a) A sort of poetry, emphasizing its symbolic nature.
(b) A medicine.
(c) A bartering tool.
(d) A way to relax.

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

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

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

15. What is the word for the "religion of aestheticism," which has grown up around tea in Japanese culture?
(a) Teaism.
(b) Tea-Taoism.
(c) T-ism.
(d) Teatimism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Did anyone oppose tea?

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

3. 1898, Okakura resigned his official post in a state institution to found what?

4. What does Taoism say about right and wrong?

5. Many did not accept efforts of modernization. There are several _________________________ documented from this time period, and many more scholars and others who attempted to preserve the old culture resisted modernization.

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