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

2. The editor sees ___________ distinct sides of Okakura which he would alternately exhibit.
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

4. The West may never truly _______________ the East.
(a) Trust.
(b) Like.
(c) Accept.
(d) Understand.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Did anyone oppose tea?

2. The year _______ is the first written mention of tea in the Western world.

3. What has been beneficial to this "religion of aestheticism?"

4. Okakura worked to make the Boston Museum a world-famous repository of what?

5. Fenollosa left to curate what museum?

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