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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. Who brought the tea to Europe?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) Explorers.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Asians.

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

3. Okakura worked to make the Boston Museum a world-famous repository of what?
(a) Chinese art.
(b) Korean art.
(c) Japanese art.
(d) Asian art.

4. Okakura could be brilliant but also ________________; visionary but suffering from cultural myopia, arrogant and pedantic but sentimental.
(a) Unintelligent.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Unsure.
(d) Infantile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Okakura was born in 1862 to whom?

2. 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.

3. Why were they referred to in this way?

4. When was tea first brought to Europe?

5. What represents a harmonious synthesis of these personalities?

(see the answer key)

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