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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. Okakura was born in 1862 to whom?

2. These are different from ________________, which is a communistic thought.

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

4. He studied under a Harvard-educated American, Ernest Fenollosa, who was instrumental in _________________ Westernization in Japan.

5. What does Zennism mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author say about Tao and Taoism?

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

3. Why is there so much fuss about tea?

4. What is the editor's opinion of Okakura?

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

6. Who began modernization in Japan? What did modernization do to Japan, according to the author?

7. How did Zen contribute to Eastern thought?

8. What was the opinion of tea?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The tea room, or Sukiya, is a simple cottage.

Part 1) Give a full description of a tea room, or Sukiya. What has influenced the design of a Sukiya? How has the Sukiya evolved over time? Why?

Part 2) Describe the Japanese tea ceremony. How are the design of the tea room and the service that takes place within connected?

Part 3) What structures exist in our culture that serve some sort of religious or ritualistic purpose? How is the ritual tied to the design of the structure?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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