Deck 6: Daoism The Way of Nature

Question 1

Describe and illustrate the yin and yang forces.

Answer 1

not answered

Question 2

In Daoism, the collection of texts known as the __________ is second in importance only to the Daodejing.

A) Analects
B) Holy Bible
C) Taiji (tai-chi)
D) Yingjing (I Ching)
E) Zhuangzi

Answer 2

E

Question 3

Which of the following themes is associated with the Daoist text known as the Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)?

A) All things are originally unequal.
B) The Dao can be understood rationally.
C) The Dao is the same as the words used to describe the Dao.
D) The Dao is a personal Deity.
E) Oneness with the Dao can be experienced.

Answer 3

E

Question 4

The __________ took power in mainland China in 1949.

A) Nationalists
B) British
C) Communists
D) Japanese
E) Koreans

Question 5

The means to realizing the goal of Chinese popular religion include __________.

A) de (virtue)
B) repudiation of worship of gods at temples, shrines, and family altars
C) xiao (or hsiao, filial piety)
D) both a and b
E) both a and c

Question 6

According to the Daoist worldview, the basic problem humans face is failure to__________.

A) Escape an unending cycle of birth, death, and rebirth
B) know who we truly are
C) make something of ourselves
D) strive for virtue
E) submit our wills to God's will

Question 7

The key word in the traditional East Asian worldview is __________.

A) harmony
B) liberation
C) nirvana
D) salvation
E) unity

Question 8

Using the concept of "harmony" as your theme, describe the shared East Asian worldview.

Question 9

After World War II, a Civil War broke out in China between the Nationalists and __________.

A) Daoists
B) Confucians
C) Communists
D) Capitalists
E) Fascists

Question 10

Using the "framework for understanding" religious worldviews developed in Chapter 1, describe the worldview of philosophical Daoism.

Question 11

Outline the similarities and differences among the roles of Laozi in Daoism, Siddartha Gautama in Buddhism, Mahavira in Jainism, and Confucius in Confucianism.

Question 12

The reading of cracks on heated bones and tortoise shells was an early form of the Chinese art of __________.

A) ancestor veneration
B) archaeology
C) divination
D) poetry
E) taiji (tai-ch'i )

Question 13

To practice the Daoist principle of wu wei is to __________.

A) act without asserting oneself
B) balance inner and outer virtues
C) devote oneself to a personal god
D) read the Yijing (I Ching) to determine one's future
E) respect one's elders

Question 14

Some of the metaphors for the Dao in the Daodejing include __________.

A) the mother, source, and womb of all reality
B) a personal creator deity
C) a place of captivity
D) the unmoved Mover
E) a tiger

Question 15

Alchemy, dietary regimes, breath control, and physical exercises were all techniques used by some Daoists in the quest for __________.

A) liberation from the cycle of rebirth
B) enlightenment
C) immortality
D) nirvana
E) oneness (UNDERSTANDING;

Question 16

Outline the similarities and differences between philosophical Daoism and devotional/ritual Daoism.

Question 17

Outline the similarities and differences between the Daoist understanding of "harmony" and the "balance" that is a feature of the indigenous worldview in general (see Chapter Two).

Question 18

Daoism suggests that the best course for a government to follow is __________.

A) capitalism
B) centralization
C) noninterference
D) socialism
E) none of the above

Question 19

Confucianism and Daoism arose in China during the __________.

A) Ch'in dynasty
B) Communist Revolution
C) Ming dynasty
D) Warring States Period
E) Yaun dynasty

Question 20

According to legend, the author of the Daodejing was __________.

A) Buddha
B) Krishna
C) Lao Tzi
D) Mahavira
E) Zhuangzi

Question 21

Defend or refute the following claim: the Daodejing stands alongside the Bhagavad-Gita as one of the great classics of religious literature.

Question 22

Explain the concepts of de and xaio and discuss their significance of in the overall worldview of Daoism.

Question 23

Explain the following assertion: "The Dao that can be named is not the Dao."

Question 24

How do taiji (tai-chi), feng shui, and the Falun Gong illustrate the vitality of Daoism in the twenty-first century?