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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the "religion of aestheticism" celebrate?
(a) The colorful and bright.
(b) That which is in unity.
(c) The peaceful and muted.
(d) The beautiful, the pure, and the harmonious.

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

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

4. 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.

5. What cannot be disputed is that, in his time, he was one of the greatest _____________ scholars, and his knowledge of this art was unparalleled.
(a) Oriental.
(b) Male.
(c) Art.
(d) Painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through consecrated meditation, what can be attained?

2. There are many similarities between Taoism and Zennism, including the emphasis on the individual and what?

3. Okakura again emphasizes that tea can do what for a culture?

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

5. These are different from ________________, which is a communistic thought.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Lu Wu? What were his beliefs about tea?

2. When did tea first arrive in the Western world? Who brought it?

3. What was the opinion of tea?

4. What happened during the Mongol invasion of China?

5. Is tea art? If so, how? If not, why not?

6. What does the author say about Tao and Taoism?

7. Did all Japanese accept modern, Western attitudes and behaviors? How do you know this?

8. How does Zennism oppose Buddhism?

9. Describe Okakura's education.

10. For what is tea known?

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