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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 is something that Westerners have invested in in excess?
(a) Ecology.
(b) War.
(c) Others.
(d) Peace.

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

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

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

5. Who has developed a whole host of bizarre and incorrect stereotypes for Asians?
(a) The West.
(b) The East.
(c) The South.
(d) The North.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "religion of aestheticism" celebrate?

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

3. The editor sees ___________ distinct sides of Okakura which he would alternately exhibit.

4. How did tea grew in popularity?

5. Some statesmen, philosophers, and artists of the West could be referred to as what?

(see the answer key)

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