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

2. Some statesmen, philosophers, and artists of the West could be referred to as what?
(a) "Tea-lovers."
(b) "Tea-aestheticians."
(c) "Tea-fiends."
(d) "Tea-philosophers."

3. Okakura was born in 1862 to whom?
(a) A potter.
(b) A factory worker.
(c) A silk merchant.
(d) A professor.

4. What is the word for the "religion of aestheticism," which has grown up around tea in Japanese culture?
(a) Teatimism.
(b) T-ism.
(c) Tea-Taoism.
(d) Teaism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did some claim about tea?

4. Fenollosa left to curate what museum?

5. What is something that Westerners have invested in in excess?

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