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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. Who has developed a whole host of bizarre and incorrect stereotypes for Asians?
(a) The North.
(b) The East.
(c) The West.
(d) The South.

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

3. The Japanese under ______________________in the second half of the 19th century were pursuing efforts to modernize.
(a) Emperor Jimmu.
(b) Emperor Itoku.
(c) Emperor Suizei.
(d) Emperor Meiji.

4. What is paramount to the state?
(a) Religion.
(b) The community.
(c) The individual.
(d) Love.

5. Lao Tzu's famous metaphor for this train of thought is what?
(a) The dance.
(b) The vacuum.
(c) The hole.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. The era that is the answer to number 69 was part of what dynasty?

2. What does Zennism mean?

3. Lu Wu could be considered what?

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

5. Why does Lu Wu prefer blue tea cups?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. For what is tea known?

4. What is teaism?

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

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

7. Describe the Whipped Tea era.

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

9. How does Zennism oppose Buddhism?

10. What are the three main tea eras? How are these eras significant?

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