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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. Tea began as what and only gradually grew into a beverage?
(a) A poison.
(b) A medicine.
(c) A lotion.
(d) A drug.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Okakura was born in 1862 to whom?

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

3. Fenollosa left to curate what museum?

4. What is something that Westerners have invested in in excess?

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

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