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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did some people call tea?
(a) A "strange custom."
(b) A "foul-tasting custom."
(c) A "filthy custom."
(d) A "foul-smelling custom."

4. The Japanese under ______________________in the second half of the 19th century were pursuing efforts to modernize.
(a) Emperor Meiji.
(b) Emperor Jimmu.
(c) Emperor Suizei.
(d) Emperor Itoku.

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.
(a) Rallies.
(b) Rebellions.
(c) Wars.
(d) Petitions.

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

7. Have Asians in turn developed the same for this culture?
(a) Not at first.
(b) At first.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

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

9. Taoism is concerned with what time?
(a) The present and the future.
(b) The future.
(c) The present.
(d) The past.

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

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

12. There is also an emphasis on what?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Relations.
(d) Relativity.

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

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

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) Painting.
(b) Art.
(c) Male.
(d) Oriental.

Short Answer Questions

1. America's own __________________ shows the power of tea.

2. How did tea grew in popularity?

3. What is paramount to the state?

4. Many Japanese treated heirlooms and traditional art as what?

5. For whom did tea became a favorite?

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