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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Art masters are _________ for their art lives in those who can appreciate it.
(a) Mortal.
(b) Problematic.
(c) Strange.
(d) Immortal.

2. Can vain artists, absorbed with their own genius, ever truly connect with others?
(a) No, never.
(b) No, not often.
(c) Yes, always.
(d) Yes, most of the time.

3. Tea-masters, in choosing art for their ceremonies, only choose what pieces?
(a) Those that their patrons like.
(b) Those which specifically speak to them.
(c) Those that are most expensive.
(d) Those that suit their tea.

4. What is the word for the "religion of aestheticism," which has grown up around tea in Japanese culture?
(a) Teaism.
(b) Tea-Taoism.
(c) T-ism.
(d) Teatimism.

5. Lao Tzu's famous metaphor for this train of thought is what?
(a) The hole.
(b) The vacuum.
(c) The dance.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. A masterpiece viewed in this way becomes what?

2. He studied under a Harvard-educated American, Ernest Fenollosa, who was instrumental in _________________ Westernization in Japan.

3. Taoism emphasizes what?

4. What happens when the flower withers?

5. Okakura was born in 1862 to whom?

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