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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As what is the portico used?
(a) An art gallery.
(b) A waiting area for guests prior to tea being served.
(c) A room for making tea.
(d) A place for serving tea.

2. The art of flower arrangement began with whom?
(a) Zennist monks.
(b) Buddhist saints.
(c) Christian disciples.
(d) Hindu priests.

3. During one of these fights, who planted rumors that Rikyu planned to poison his lord?
(a) Rikyu.
(b) Rikyu's friends.
(c) Enemies of Rikyu.
(d) Other tea-masters.

4. Where are a massive amount of flowers used and then tossed out, with no appreciation or consideration for the sacrifice of the flower?
(a) In the West.
(b) In the North.
(c) In the East.
(d) In the South.

5. Why did Rikyu frequently have arguments with his patron lord?
(a) He liked to stir up trouble.
(b) They often did not see eye to eye.
(c) His patron lord was unkind.
(d) He was never content to be servile.

6. Flowers and trees are selected how?
(a) Very carefully.
(b) Very quickly.
(c) Very hastily.
(d) Very slowly.

7. Lastly, tea masters have an understanding of the ________________ of life.
(a) Brevity.
(b) Quality.
(c) Dullness.
(d) Waste.

8. Flowers selected in this manner are placed on what?
(a) The "tutenkamun."
(b) The "tokonoma."
(c) The "toyota."
(d) The "tokoyoko."

9. Many stories in Japan feature the rescue of what?
(a) Art pieces.
(b) Monks.
(c) Tea masters.
(d) People.

10. What are the invention of tea masters?
(a) Many dishes.
(b) Many tea cups.
(c) Many other art forms.
(d) Many silk flowers.

11. For whom is the tea room designed?
(a) The type of tea.
(b) The guests.
(c) A specific tea-master.
(d) A specific god.

12. Okakura laments that the flower was born how?
(a) Small and beautiful.
(b) Scented.
(c) Bright and colorful.
(d) Helpless with no way to defend itself.

13. On what does modern art appreciation depend?
(a) More on genuine, individual love for art, than on fashion and word of mouth.
(b) More on fashion than word of mouth.
(c) More on word of mouth than fashion.
(d) More on fashion and word of mouth than genuine, individual love for art.

14. What happens when the flower withers?
(a) The plant is carefully buried.
(b) The plant is burned.
(c) The plant is thrown into the water.
(d) The plant is thrown away.

15. The lord believed the rumors and condemned Rikyu to what?
(a) Punishment.
(b) Solitary confinement.
(c) Death.
(d) Prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the place of honor?

2. The tea room looks small and impoverished, and the construction of one may be __________.

3. Eastern plant care is an ancient art and treasured custom, and from this tea-masters have developed what is called what?

4. The tea room not only contrasts Western architecture, it is quite different from what?

5. What is the tea room?

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