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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. Who has developed a whole host of bizarre and incorrect stereotypes for Asians?
(a) The East.
(b) The North.
(c) The West.
(d) The South.

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

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

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

5. Okakura worked to make the Boston Museum a world-famous repository of what?
(a) Korean art.
(b) Chinese art.
(c) Asian art.
(d) Japanese art.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brought the tea to Europe?

2. 1898, Okakura resigned his official post in a state institution to found what?

3. 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.

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

5. Did anyone oppose tea?

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