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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. There is also an emphasis on what?

2. What did Taoism challenge?

3. The Japanese under ______________________in the second half of the 19th century were pursuing efforts to modernize.

4. What is another side?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Lu Wu? What were his beliefs about tea?

2. Is tea art? If so, how? If not, why not?

3. What are differences between China and Japan, regarding culture and tea?

4. Why is there so much fuss about tea?

5. What is Zennism?

6. What is the history of Taoism and tea?

7. What is teaism?

8. How are the Whipped Tea era and the Boiled Tea era different?

9. What happened during the Mongol invasion of China?

10. What is said about THE BOOK OF TEA and tea at the end of the chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tea masters have done much for Japanese culture.

Part 1) What have tea masters done for Japanese culture? How has this influence come about?

Part 2) What influence has Japanese culture, and essentially the tea master, had on Western culture? How has Western culture also influenced Eastern culture? Is this blending of cultures good? Why or why not?

Part 3) Who influences the culture in the U.S.? How are U.S. citizens, and the West as a whole, affected by this influence?

Essay Topic 2

Humans have demonstrated that they are unworthy of the flower.

Part 1) How have humans demonstrated this? Is the flower unique to being mistreated by man? Explain.

Part 2) How does the Cult of Flowers try to go against this fact? Do Americans treat flowers with respect? Why or why not?

Part 3) Are humans worthy of anything? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Okakura tells the story of the Last Tea of Rikyu.

Part 1) Describe the Last Tea of Rikyu. Why does he tell this story? What does it illustrate? What does it reinforce?

Part 2) How does this story compare to our own folk tales? What commonalities exist? What differences exist?

Part 3) Why might the author have ended this book with this story? How does this ending affect the reader?

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