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

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

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

4. 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.
(a) Karate.
(b) Tai-Kwan-Do.
(c) Jiu-jitsu.
(d) Kenpo.

5. What is one of these sides?
(a) The great painter.
(b) The great student.
(c) The great scholar.
(d) The great artisan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Is it appropriate for Westerners to learn tea's origins and how tea is used elsewhere?

3. Fenollosa left to curate what museum?

4. 1898, Okakura resigned his official post in a state institution to found what?

5. The West may never truly _______________ the East.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Zennism oppose Buddhism?

2. How did Zen contribute to Eastern thought?

3. What are differences between China and Japan, regarding culture and tea?

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

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

6. For what is tea known?

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

8. How did tea begin?

9. Why is there so much fuss about tea?

10. Describe Okakura's education.

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