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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Okakura again emphasizes that tea can do what for a culture?
(a) Destroy it.
(b) Speak volumes about it.
(c) Alter it.
(d) Confuse it.

2. The Boiled Tea era used tea as what?
(a) A sort of poetry, emphasizing its symbolic nature.
(b) A bartering tool.
(c) A medicine.
(d) A way to relax.

3. For what was tea praised?
(a) Its abilities to grow in all climates.
(b) Its abilities to reduce stress.
(c) Being inexpensive, medicinal, and tasting good.
(d) Its abilities to reduce fatigue, empower the soul, and repair eyesight.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Taoists think about organized religion?

2. Is there a mechanical method for making tea?

3. Through consecrated meditation, what can be attained?

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

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

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