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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) No.
(c) At first.
(d) Yes.

2. Okakura worked to make the Boston Museum a world-famous repository of what?
(a) Chinese art.
(b) Japanese art.
(c) Korean art.
(d) Asian art.

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

4. Why were they referred to in this way?
(a) They loved tea more than anything else.
(b) They discussed the aesthetic qualities of tea.
(c) They used tea for creative inspiration and contemplate tea itself, celebrating its essence.
(d) They used tea as an artistic medium.

5. In 1890 the two split, perhaps due to what, and the fact that Okakura was outdoing his master?
(a) Differing beliefs.
(b) Different life paths.
(c) Strong egos in both men.
(d) Illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What era followed this era?

2. What are these eras?

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

4. What is the word for the "religion of aestheticism," which has grown up around tea in Japanese culture?

5. Okakura could be brilliant but also ________________; visionary but suffering from cultural myopia, arrogant and pedantic but sentimental.

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