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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 is something that Westerners have invested in in excess?
(a) Others.
(b) Peace.
(c) War.
(d) Ecology.

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

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

4. The chief contribution of Taoism to Asiatic life is what?
(a) Communal living.
(b) Peace.
(c) Tea.
(d) Aesthetic theory.

5. Tea was known in China since when?
(a) Four decades ago.
(b) Ancient times.
(c) Several decades ago.
(d) Modern times.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the book he wrote?

3. The year _______ is the first written mention of tea in the Western world.

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

5. Okakura worked to make the Boston Museum a world-famous repository of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What might a typical Westerner see in the tea ceremony?

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

3. What is the history of Taoism and tea?

4. What is the editor's opinion of Okakura?

5. What are Taoist beliefs? How did this affect the feelings toward authority and laws?

6. What happened during the Mongol invasion of China?

7. How does Zennism oppose Buddhism?

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

9. For what is tea known?

10. What did the two men do once they parted ways?

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