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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. The book also discusses well-known tea drinkers from history, and_________ methods of tea drinking which are to be avoided.
(a) "Disgusting."
(b) "Ugly."
(c) "Gross."
(d) "Vulgar."

2. Is it appropriate for Westerners to learn tea's origins and how tea is used elsewhere?
(a) Possibly.
(b) No, not yet.
(c) Yes.
(d) No. It will never be appropriate.

3. Okakura could be brilliant but also ________________; visionary but suffering from cultural myopia, arrogant and pedantic but sentimental.
(a) Unsure.
(b) Infantile.
(c) Unintelligent.
(d) Ignorant.

4. Many Japanese treated heirlooms and traditional art as what?
(a) Precious treasures.
(b) Everyday items.
(c) Little more than junk.
(d) Family jewels.

5. Why does Lu Wu prefer blue tea cups?
(a) So they could contrast the best with the green color of the tea.
(b) Because blue is the color of the sea.
(c) Because blue is the most expensive glaze.
(d) So they could blend with the green of the tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tea requires who to bring out its "noblest qualities?"

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

3. The Boiled Tea era used tea as what?

4. What represents a harmonious synthesis of these personalities?

5. He died in 1913 after returning to Tokyo and contracting what disease?

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