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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Taoism and Zennism.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Through consecrated meditation, what can be attained?
(a) Nirvana.
(b) Supreme self-knowledge and self-realization.
(c) Understanding of life.
(d) Happiness.

3. Are stereotypes breaking down with modernization?
(a) No.
(b) Only slightly.
(c) Yes.
(d) Only at first.

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. 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) Peace and acceptance.
(c) Respect and quiet.
(d) Quaintness and childishness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Taoism challenge?

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

3. The editor sees ___________ distinct sides of Okakura which he would alternately exhibit.

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

5. What does Taoism say about right and wrong?

(see the answer key)

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