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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 cannot be disputed is that, in his time, he was one of the greatest _____________ scholars, and his knowledge of this art was unparalleled.
(a) Oriental.
(b) Art.
(c) Painting.
(d) Male.

2. What did some people call tea?
(a) A "foul-smelling custom."
(b) A "filthy custom."
(c) A "foul-tasting custom."
(d) A "strange custom."

3. Many did not accept efforts of modernization. There are several _________________________ documented from this time period, and many more scholars and others who attempted to preserve the old culture resisted modernization.
(a) Rebellions.
(b) Petitions.
(c) Wars.
(d) Rallies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brought the tea to Europe?

2. 1898, Okakura resigned his official post in a state institution to found what?

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

4. What is one of these sides?

5. Mankind is well known for investing great care in __________ things.

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