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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who invented the independent tea room?
(a) Beniko.
(b) Teiko.
(c) Aiko.
(d) Rikyu.

2. The tea room looks small and impoverished, and the construction of one may be __________.
(a) Somewhat cheap.
(b) Very cheap.
(c) Very costly.
(d) Somewhat costly.

3. The year _______ is the first written mention of tea in the Western world.
(a) 849.
(b) 879.
(c) 869.
(d) 859.

4. Okakura again emphasizes that tea can do what for a culture?
(a) Alter it.
(b) Speak volumes about it.
(c) Destroy it.
(d) Confuse it.

5. What has been beneficial to this "religion of aestheticism?"
(a) Japan's Buddhist beliefs.
(b) Japan's influence on the continent.
(c) Japan's connection with China.
(d) Japan's isolation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the purpose of the garden path?

2. Some statesmen, philosophers, and artists of the West could be referred to as what?

3. There are how many main eras of tea?

4. What represents a harmonious synthesis of these personalities?

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

(see the answer key)

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