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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Schools of Tea.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Have Asians in turn developed the same for this culture?
(a) Not at first.
(b) Yes.
(c) At first.
(d) No.

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

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

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

5. Okakura went to America with many _____________________ to sell to Americans.
(a) Drawings.
(b) Prints.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Wares.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Japanese under ______________________in the second half of the 19th century were pursuing efforts to modernize.

2. The West may never truly _______________ the East.

3. What era followed this era?

4. America's own __________________ shows the power of tea.

5. What has been beneficial to this "religion of aestheticism?"

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