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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Is there a mechanical method for making tea?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Usually.

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

3. Have Asians in turn developed the same for this culture?
(a) Not at first.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) At first.

4. Fenollosa and Okakura went around Asia, doing what?
(a) Speaking Japanese.
(b) Encouraging others to treasure Japanese culture.
(c) Finding art and other objects to preserve.
(d) Teaching art history.

5. The harm we do to others is a result of what?
(a) Others treating us poorly.
(b) The devil.
(c) Accidents.
(d) A failure to know ourselves and come to grips with our own wickedness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did most great tea-masters use Zen concepts for the tea room?

2. What is kept in the anteroom?

3. In 1890 the two split, perhaps due to what, and the fact that Okakura was outdoing his master?

4. What has been beneficial to this "religion of aestheticism?"

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

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