View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Have Asians in turn developed the same for this culture?

2. Tea began as what and only gradually grew into a beverage?

3. Tea was known in China since when?

4. When was this power of tea shown?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the opinion of tea?

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

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

4. What is the history of Taoism and tea?

5. How does Zennism oppose Buddhism?

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

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

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

9. Describe the Whipped Tea era.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are three eras of tea.

Part 1) What are the three main tea eras? Describe each of them and explain how each of them come to be? How are they connected?

Part 2) How does each era reflect the Japanese culture of the time? Does the tea era influence the culture or does the culture influence the tea era? Explain.

Part 3) How does art in America today reflect life? How has American art evolved to be what it is today?

Essay Topic 2

Tea is art and requires a tea master to bring out its "noblest qualities."

Part 1) How is tea art? What are the requirements for something to be a work of art, according to the author? What are tea's noble qualities?

Part 2) How does a tea master bring out the "noblest qualities" in tea? What else is a tea master capable of? How have tea masters helped to shape Japanese culture?

Part 3) What is an American art form? Who has been instrumental in the evolution of this art form?

Essay Topic 3

Tea began as a medicine and only gradually grew into a beverage.

Part 1) Describe the medicinal uses of tea. How did this gradually lead to tea being a beverage? How did this beverage then spread throughout the world?

Part 2) What are the three main tea eras? How did each begin? How is each era unique? What commonalities exist between these eras? What influenced how tea was made and how it was served? How important is the tea room in the tea service? How does the tea room reflect the tea master and the tea that is being served?

Part 3) How has the U.S. been affected by the spread of the popularity of tea? How is tea a part of our culture today? How does U.S. tea culture compare to the Japanese tea culture described in the book? Is one tea culture superior? If so, how? If not, why not?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,036 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample