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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who has developed a whole host of bizarre and incorrect stereotypes for Asians?
(a) The South.
(b) The West.
(c) The East.
(d) The North.

3. Okakura went to America with many _____________________ to sell to Americans.
(a) Wares.
(b) Prints.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Drawings.

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

5. He died in 1913 after returning to Tokyo and contracting what disease?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lu Wu, in this book, describes what aspects of tea?

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

3. Many Japanese treated heirlooms and traditional art as what?

4. The chief contribution of Taoism to Asiatic life is what?

5. For what was tea praised?

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