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

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

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

4. The Japanese under ______________________in the second half of the 19th century were pursuing efforts to modernize.
(a) Emperor Meiji.
(b) Emperor Suizei.
(c) Emperor Itoku.
(d) Emperor Jimmu.

5. He died in 1913 after returning to Tokyo and contracting what disease?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Typhoid fever.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The West may never truly _______________ the East.

2. Tea began as what and only gradually grew into a beverage?

3. Modernization came with a price, namely, the destruction of what?

4. When was tea first brought to Europe?

5. He studied under a Harvard-educated American, Ernest Fenollosa, who was instrumental in _________________ Westernization in Japan.

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