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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Tea is ________.
(a) Dance.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Music.
(d) Art.

6. There are many similarities between Taoism and Zennism, including the emphasis on the individual and what?
(a) Symmetry.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Self-concentration.
(d) The community.

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

8. How did tea grew in popularity?
(a) Steadily.
(b) Quickly.
(c) Slowly.
(d) Sporadically.

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

10. Tao, translated literally, means what?
(a) A Light.
(b) A God.
(c) A Path.
(d) A Peace.

11. Tea began as what and only gradually grew into a beverage?
(a) A poison.
(b) A lotion.
(c) A medicine.
(d) A drug.

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

13. Zennism believes that nothing is real except what?
(a) The human mind.
(b) God.
(c) Earth.
(d) Mankind.

14. 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, the Cooked Tea, and the Steamed Tea.
(c) The Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, the Steeped Tea, and the Cooked Tea..
(d) The Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, the Steeped Tea, the Cooked Tea, the Steamed Tea, and the Black Tea..

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1890 the two split, perhaps due to what, and the fact that Okakura was outdoing his master?

2. What is another side?

3. The book also discusses well-known tea drinkers from history, and_________ methods of tea drinking which are to be avoided.

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

5. Taoism and its successor, _____________, represent an individualistic trend in Southern Chinese thought.

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