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

2. Okakura used tea as a symbol for what in East Asia?
(a) Life.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Love.
(d) Art.

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

4. A typical Westerner might see in the tea ceremony a certain ____________________________ that he would then equate to the entire culture of Japan and its people.
(a) Peace and acceptance.
(b) Respect and quiet.
(c) Strangeness and rigidity.
(d) Quaintness and childishness.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the "religion of aestheticism" celebrate?

4. Why were they referred to in this way?

5. When was tea first brought to Europe?

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