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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tea-masters justify the cutting of flowers by viewing it as what?
(a) A need of the people.
(b) A requirement to keep the flower population in check.
(c) A beautiful art form.
(d) A sacrifice in the service of a great and noble idea or artistic expression.

2. Some tea-masters aimed for what feeling?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Jealousy.

3. What is the purpose of the garden path?
(a) It is a place to relax.
(b) It surrounds the tea room.
(c) It is a place to drink tea.
(d) It connects the larger structure with the tea room.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Is death a great thing to these masters?

2. How do guests approach the tea room?

3. What are the invention of tea masters?

4. Why might it be hard for Westerners to appreciate the Japanese tradition of wood and bamboo architecture, and, therefore, hard to appreciate the tea room itself?

5. Ultimately, what intermingle as to be indistinguishable?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Okakura say about modern art appreciation?

2. How is the tea room different from other forms of architecture?

3. Why might it be difficult for Westerners to appreciate Japanese architecture?

4. How does one enter a tea room?

5. How can one truly appreciate art?

6. How did Rikyu's life come to an end?

7. How did the art of flower arrangement begin?

8. How is non-symmetry and non-repetition important?

9. What story does Okakura tell? What is the problem with the instrument in the book?

10. Describe early tea rooms and how they changed with the innovations of Rikyu.

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