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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) Aiko.
(b) Rikyu.
(c) Beniko.
(d) Teiko.

2. Zennism emphasized the abstract and the imaginary, whereas Buddhism emphasized what?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Nirvana and reincarnation.
(c) The Golden Rule.
(d) Memorization of scriptures.

3. Tea was known in China since when?
(a) Ancient times.
(b) Modern times.
(c) Four decades ago.
(d) Several decades ago.

4. Okakura worked to make the Boston Museum a world-famous repository of what?
(a) Japanese art.
(b) Chinese art.
(c) Korean art.
(d) Asian art.

5. Tea began as what and only gradually grew into a beverage?
(a) A poison.
(b) A drug.
(c) A medicine.
(d) A lotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might a tea room appear to a Westerner?

2. How do guests approach the tea room?

3. These are different from ________________, which is a communistic thought.

4. What did Taoism challenge?

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

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