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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) Ecology.
(b) War.
(c) Peace.
(d) Others.

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

3. Okakura again emphasizes that tea can do what for a culture?
(a) Destroy it.
(b) Alter it.
(c) Speak volumes about it.
(d) Confuse it.

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

5. Why does Lu Wu prefer blue tea cups?
(a) Because blue is the most expensive glaze.
(b) Because blue is the color of the sea.
(c) So they could blend with the green of the tea.
(d) So they could contrast the best with the green color of the tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of these sides?

2. There is also an emphasis on what?

3. What did Taoism challenge?

4. Lu Wu, in this book, describes what aspects of tea?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the chief contribution of Taoism to Asiatic life? Describe this.

2. How is the vacuum used in another art form?

3. What is the history of Taoism and tea?

4. How did tea begin?

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

6. What was the opinion of tea?

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

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

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

10. Who began modernization in Japan? What did modernization do to Japan, according to the author?

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