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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. What does Taoism say about right and wrong?

2. Fenollosa left to curate what museum?

3. The book also discusses well-known tea drinkers from history, and_________ methods of tea drinking which are to be avoided.

4. Taoism and its successor, _____________, represent an individualistic trend in Southern Chinese thought.

5. What represents a harmonious synthesis of these personalities?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Fenollosa and Okakura do together? How and why did their travels together end?

3. Did all Japanese accept modern, Western attitudes and behaviors? How do you know this?

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

5. What might a typical Westerner see in the tea ceremony?

6. What are Taoist beliefs? How did this affect the feelings toward authority and laws?

7. Is it appropriate for Westerners to learn tea's origin and how it is used elsewhere? Why or why not?

8. What are the three main tea eras? How are these eras significant?

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

10. When did tea first arrive in the Western world? Who brought it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Stereotypes exist for both the West and the East.

Part 1) Describe stereotypes of each. How have these stereotypes come about? How do they affect the relationships between the East and the West?

Part 2) What does the writing of this book reveal about the stereotypes between the East and the West? What does this reveal about the author's feelings towards the West?

Part 3) What stereotypes exist in your own community? How do these stereotypes come about? How do they affect relationships between various groups in your community? How do these stereotypes affect you?

Essay Topic 2

Tea masters were conscious of art as a living, present influence.

Part 1) Support this statement with facts from this book. How does this also reinforce Eastern philosophical and religious beliefs?

Part 2) How do Westerners view art? How does this view affect how Westerners treat art and what art is made?

Part 3) How do you view art? How have you come to this belief? How does it compare to the tea master's view of art?

Essay Topic 3

Zennism influenced tea rooms.

Part 1) Describe Zennism. How did Zennism influence tea rooms? What else has influenced tea room design and ritual?

Part 2) How do these tea rooms compare to other Japanese structures? What are the reasons for any differences? What does this reveal about the tea room?

Part 3) How has Zennism and other aspects of Japanese culture influenced Western culture? What does this reveal about Western culture?

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