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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As with vintage and concern with years with wine in Europe, different tea periods can tell us what about Japan?
(a) Its different eras.
(b) Its different technological advances.
(c) Its different interests.
(d) Its different soil types.

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

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

5. Is it appropriate for Westerners to learn tea's origins and how tea is used elsewhere?
(a) Yes.
(b) Possibly.
(c) No. It will never be appropriate.
(d) No, not yet.

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

7. Through consecrated meditation, what can be attained?
(a) Supreme self-knowledge and self-realization.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Understanding of life.
(d) Nirvana.

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

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

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

11. Why were they referred to in this way?
(a) They loved tea more than anything else.
(b) They discussed the aesthetic qualities of tea.
(c) They used tea for creative inspiration and contemplate tea itself, celebrating its essence.
(d) They used tea as an artistic medium.

12. In what century was a man named Lu Wu born?
(a) The 6th.
(b) The 7th.
(c) The 8th.
(d) The 5th.

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

14. Modernization came with a price, namely, the destruction of what?
(a) The 'old' or traditional way of Japanese living.
(b) The welfare system in Japan.
(c) The health of the Japanese people.
(d) The power of the empire.

15. Okakura worked to make the Boston Museum a world-famous repository of what?
(a) Japanese art.
(b) Korean art.
(c) Chinese art.
(d) Asian art.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tea requires who to bring out its "noblest qualities?"

2. Who brought the tea to Europe?

3. What is this book considered?

4. 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.

5. What is another side?

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