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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. ____________ and tea are connected in legend.
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Taoism.
(c) Hinduism
(d) Zennism.

6. The harm we do to others is a result of what?
(a) Accidents.
(b) Others treating us poorly.
(c) A failure to know ourselves and come to grips with our own wickedness.
(d) The devil.

7. He studied under a Harvard-educated American, Ernest Fenollosa, who was instrumental in _________________ Westernization in Japan.
(a) Ignoring.
(b) Halting.
(c) Promoting.
(d) Encouraging.

8. Okakura could be brilliant but also ________________; visionary but suffering from cultural myopia, arrogant and pedantic but sentimental.
(a) Unsure.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Infantile.
(d) Unintelligent.

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

10. Fenollosa left to curate what museum?
(a) The Guggenheim.
(b) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(c) The MoMa.
(d) The Boston Museum.

11. 1898, Okakura resigned his official post in a state institution to found what?
(a) The East Asian School of Art.
(b) The Asian Art Institute.
(c) The Japanese Art Institution.
(d) The Chinese Art School.

12. Mankind is well known for investing great care in __________ things.
(a) Large.
(b) Useless.
(c) Medium.
(d) Small.

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

14. Are stereotypes breaking down with modernization?
(a) Only slightly.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Only at first.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Japanese under ______________________in the second half of the 19th century were pursuing efforts to modernize.

2. Modernization came with a price, namely, the destruction of what?

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

4. Lu Wu is associated with what era?

5. When was tea first brought to Europe?

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