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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. He studied under a Harvard-educated American, Ernest Fenollosa, who was instrumental in _________________ Westernization in Japan.
(a) Ignoring.
(b) Encouraging.
(c) Halting.
(d) Promoting.

2. Have Westerners embraced tea fully?
(a) No, not at all.
(b) Yes, as a beverage.
(c) Yes, as a beverage and a social event.
(d) No, not fully.

3. Why were they referred to in this way?
(a) They discussed the aesthetic qualities of tea.
(b) They used tea as an artistic medium.
(c) They loved tea more than anything else.
(d) They used tea for creative inspiration and contemplate tea itself, celebrating its essence.

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

5. The year _______ is the first written mention of tea in the Western world.
(a) 879.
(b) 859.
(c) 869.
(d) 849.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Okakura could be brilliant but also ________________; visionary but suffering from cultural myopia, arrogant and pedantic but sentimental.

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

4. What is one of these sides?

5. What is the word for the "religion of aestheticism," which has grown up around tea in Japanese culture?

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