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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has developed a whole host of bizarre and incorrect stereotypes for Asians?
(a) The West.
(b) The East.
(c) The South.
(d) The North.

2. What has been beneficial to this "religion of aestheticism?"
(a) Japan's connection with China.
(b) Japan's isolation.
(c) Japan's influence on the continent.
(d) Japan's Buddhist beliefs.

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

4. Taoism and its successor, _____________, represent an individualistic trend in Southern Chinese thought.
(a) Shintoism.
(b) Zenithism.
(c) Zennism.
(d) Buddhism.

5. Would the state fund Okakura's school?
(a) No.
(b) Only much later.
(c) Yes.
(d) Only at first.

6. For what was tea praised?
(a) Its abilities to reduce stress.
(b) Its abilities to grow in all climates.
(c) Its abilities to reduce fatigue, empower the soul, and repair eyesight.
(d) Being inexpensive, medicinal, and tasting good.

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

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

9. Lu Wu insists that what kind of water is the best tea to brew with?
(a) River.
(b) Mountain spring.
(c) Lake.
(d) Sea.

10. When was this power of tea shown?
(a) By the late-1600s.
(b) By the late-1700s.
(c) By the late-1500s.
(d) By the late-1400s.

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

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

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

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

15. Lu Wu, in this book, describes what aspects of tea?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Most.
(d) All.

Short Answer Questions

1. As with vintage and concern with years with wine in Europe, different tea periods can tell us what about Japan?

2. Zennism believes that nothing is real except what?

3. What is one of these sides?

4. Lu Wu is associated with what era?

5. Did anyone oppose tea?

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