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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zennism mean?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Peace.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Silence.

2. There are many similarities between Taoism and Zennism, including the emphasis on the individual and what?
(a) Self-concentration.
(b) Symmetry.
(c) Architecture.
(d) The community.

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

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

5. The West may never truly _______________ the East.
(a) Like.
(b) Accept.
(c) Trust.
(d) Understand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Have Asians in turn developed the same for this culture?

2. Zennism emphasized the abstract and the imaginary, whereas Buddhism emphasized what?

3. What was the purpose of the garden path?

4. What is the name of the tea room?

5. Okakura relates what Taoist tale?

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