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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cup of Humanity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Did anyone oppose tea?
(a) Yes, many.
(b) No.
(c) Yes, some.
(d) Yes, all.

2. 1898, Okakura resigned his official post in a state institution to found what?
(a) The East Asian School of Art.
(b) The Japanese Art Institution.
(c) The Asian Art Institute.
(d) The Chinese Art School.

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

4. 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) Quaintness and childishness.
(b) Respect and quiet.
(c) Strangeness and rigidity.
(d) Peace and acceptance.

5. How did tea grew in popularity?
(a) Sporadically.
(b) Slowly.
(c) Quickly.
(d) Steadily.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was tea first brought to Europe?

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

3. Have Asians in turn developed the same for this culture?

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

5. Okakura was born in 1862 to whom?

(see the answer key)

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