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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. Is it appropriate for Westerners to learn tea's origins and how tea is used elsewhere?
(a) Yes.
(b) No, not yet.
(c) Possibly.
(d) No. It will never be appropriate.

2. Many Japanese treated heirlooms and traditional art as what?
(a) Family jewels.
(b) Precious treasures.
(c) Everyday items.
(d) Little more than junk.

3. What does the "religion of aestheticism" celebrate?
(a) That which is in unity.
(b) The beautiful, the pure, and the harmonious.
(c) The colorful and bright.
(d) The peaceful and muted.

4. What is the word for the "religion of aestheticism," which has grown up around tea in Japanese culture?
(a) Teaism.
(b) Tea-Taoism.
(c) T-ism.
(d) Teatimism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fenollosa left to curate what museum?

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

3. What is another side?

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

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

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