View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zennism mean?
(a) Peace.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Silence.
(d) Meditation.

2. Did anyone oppose tea?
(a) Yes, all.
(b) Yes, many.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, some.

3. What is the word for the "religion of aestheticism," which has grown up around tea in Japanese culture?
(a) Teatimism.
(b) Teaism.
(c) Tea-Taoism.
(d) T-ism.

4. Lao Tzu's famous metaphor for this train of thought is what?
(a) The vacuum.
(b) The dance.
(c) Nature.
(d) The hole.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the book he wrote?

2. The West may never truly _______________ the East.

3. What has been beneficial to this "religion of aestheticism?"

4. Who has developed a whole host of bizarre and incorrect stereotypes for Asians?

5. What did some people call tea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is teaism?

2. Why is there so much fuss about tea?

3. What is the chief contribution of Taoism to Asiatic life? Describe this.

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

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

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

7. How did tea begin?

8. Describe Okakura's education.

9. Describe the Whipped Tea era.

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 837 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample