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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What represents a harmonious synthesis of these personalities?
(a) The Tea Tale.
(b) The Tea Story.
(c) The Book of Tea.
(d) The Tale of Tea.

2. What is another side?
(a) The self-assured.
(b) The knowing one.
(c) The sentimentalist.
(d) The friend.

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

4. 1898, Okakura resigned his official post in a state institution to found what?
(a) The Japanese Art Institution.
(b) The Asian Art Institute.
(c) The East Asian School of Art.
(d) The Chinese Art School.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The person in #60 combined teaism with Confucianism, Taoism, and what other religion?

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

3. Who has developed a whole host of bizarre and incorrect stereotypes for Asians?

4. What is the word for the "religion of aestheticism," which has grown up around tea in Japanese culture?

5. Okakura was born in 1862 to whom?

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