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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. When was this power of tea shown?
(a) By the late-1500s.
(b) By the late-1400s.
(c) By the late-1700s.
(d) By the late-1600s.

2. What is this book considered?
(a) The Secrets of Tea.
(b) The Tea Bible.
(c) The Text of Tea.
(d) The Code of Tea.

3. A typical Westerner might see in the tea ceremony a certain ____________________________ that he would then equate to the entire culture of Japan and its people.
(a) Strangeness and rigidity.
(b) Respect and quiet.
(c) Quaintness and childishness.
(d) Peace and acceptance.

4. What does the "religion of aestheticism" celebrate?
(a) The peaceful and muted.
(b) The colorful and bright.
(c) That which is in unity.
(d) The beautiful, the pure, and the harmonious.

5. As with vintage and concern with years with wine in Europe, different tea periods can tell us what about Japan?
(a) Its different eras.
(b) Its different interests.
(c) Its different technological advances.
(d) Its different soil types.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tea was known in China since when?

2. Okakura went to America with many _____________________ to sell to Americans.

3. Okakura used tea as a symbol for what in East Asia?

4. 1898, Okakura resigned his official post in a state institution to found what?

5. Why does Lu Wu prefer blue tea cups?

(see the answer key)

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