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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Okakura went to America with many _____________________ to sell to Americans.
(a) Prints.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Wares.
(d) Drawings.

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

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

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

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

6. A typical Westerner might see in the tea ceremony a certain ____________________________ that he would then equate to the entire culture of Japan and its people.
(a) Peace and acceptance.
(b) Quaintness and childishness.
(c) Strangeness and rigidity.
(d) Respect and quiet.

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

8. Okakura used tea as a symbol for what in East Asia?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Life.
(c) Art.
(d) Love.

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

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

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

12. The editor sees ___________ distinct sides of Okakura which he would alternately exhibit.
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

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

14. With what is Taoism is mostly concerned?
(a) "Earthly change" and spiritual growth.
(b) "Cosmic change" and the infinite nature of the universe.
(c) "Conformity of the group" and unity within a community.
(d) "Personal change" and what takes place in the self.

15. For whom did tea became a favorite?
(a) Villagers and farmers.
(b) Kings and Queens.
(c) Monks and priests.
(d) Emperors and their courts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lao Tzu's famous metaphor for this train of thought is what?

2. The Boiled Tea era used tea as what?

3. This imagery is reflected in many arts, such as the martial art of ____________ which emphasizes absorbing the enemy's blows in order to exhaust him.

4. Tea began as what and only gradually grew into a beverage?

5. What does Taoism say about right and wrong?

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