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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The era that is the answer to number 69 was part of what dynasty?
(a) The Sung.
(b) Qin Dynasty.
(c) The Western Zhou dynasty.
(d) Han Dynasty.

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

3. Okakura relates what Taoist tale?
(a) Taming of the Shrew.
(b) The Musician.
(c) Taming of the Harp.
(d) The Harpist.

4. What has been beneficial to this "religion of aestheticism?"
(a) Japan's isolation.
(b) Japan's influence on the continent.
(c) Japan's connection with China.
(d) Japan's Buddhist beliefs.

5. This door, forcing everyone to hunch down, was meant to do what?
(a) Be uncomfortable.
(b) Embarrass.
(c) Inspire humility.
(d) Humiliate.

Short Answer Questions

1. If something is ancient, is it valuable?

2. Tea-masters justify the cutting of flowers by viewing it as what?

3. Some tea-masters aimed for what feeling?

4. The year _______ is the first written mention of tea in the Western world.

5. Okakura could be brilliant but also ________________; visionary but suffering from cultural myopia, arrogant and pedantic but sentimental.

(see the answer key)

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