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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tea-Masters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Taoism challenge?
(a) Authority and laws.
(b) Other religions.
(c) Atheism.
(d) Personal spirituality.

2. Okakura could be brilliant but also ________________; visionary but suffering from cultural myopia, arrogant and pedantic but sentimental.
(a) Unintelligent.
(b) Infantile.
(c) Ignorant.
(d) Unsure.

3. How might the flower be memorialized?
(a) With a song.
(b) With a monument.
(c) With a prayer.
(d) With a poem.

4. What was the purpose of the garden path?
(a) To preserve nature.
(b) So tea drinkers could have a nice view.
(c) To sever any connection to the outside world.
(d) To make the land around the tea room look aesthetically-pleasing.

5. Flowers and trees are selected how?
(a) Very quickly.
(b) Very carefully.
(c) Very slowly.
(d) Very hastily.

Short Answer Questions

1. Okakura tells the story of the _________ Tea of Rikyu.

2. Eastern plant care is an ancient art and treasured custom, and from this tea-masters have developed what is called what?

3. The lord believed the rumors and condemned Rikyu to what?

4. The Boiled Tea era used tea as what?

5. Okakura again emphasizes that tea can do what for a culture?

(see the answer key)

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