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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Art Appreciation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Okakura was born in 1862 to whom?
(a) A factory worker.
(b) A potter.
(c) A silk merchant.
(d) A professor.

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

3. What do the great masters never forget?
(a) They are making art for an audience.
(b) They are special.
(c) They are immortal.
(d) They have been given a gift.

4. Many Japanese treated heirlooms and traditional art as what?
(a) Everyday items.
(b) Precious treasures.
(c) Little more than junk.
(d) Family jewels.

5. It is said that a man named Kwanyin presented to his master Lao Tzu tea in what?
(a) One of the first tea ceremonies.
(b) A large tea ceremony.
(c) The first known tea ceremony.
(d) A large tea cup.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are these eras?

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

3. Why were they referred to in this way?

4. Tea-masters, in choosing art for their ceremonies, only choose what pieces?

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

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