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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Have Westerners embraced tea fully?
(a) Yes, as a beverage.
(b) No, not at all.
(c) Yes, as a beverage and a social event.
(d) No, not fully.

2. Modernization came with a price, namely, the destruction of what?
(a) The power of the empire.
(b) The health of the Japanese people.
(c) The welfare system in Japan.
(d) The 'old' or traditional way of Japanese living.

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

4. He studied at an English-language university, and was fluent in what three languages?
(a) Chinese, French, and Japanese.
(b) English, French, and Japanese.
(c) Chinese, English, and Japanese.
(d) Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.

5. Have Asians in turn developed the same for this culture?
(a) Not at first.
(b) Yes.
(c) At first.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has the exact meaning of Tao changed based upon context?

2. What has been beneficial to this "religion of aestheticism?"

3. There is also an emphasis on what?

4. Zennism emphasized the abstract and the imaginary, whereas Buddhism emphasized what?

5. As with vintage and concern with years with wine in Europe, different tea periods can tell us what about Japan?

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