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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. Finally a harp master named ___________ took the harp.
(a) Yoko Sayuri.
(b) Unenko Tomomi.
(c) Rin Miu.
(d) Pai Ya.

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

3. The tea room looks small and impoverished, and the construction of one may be __________.
(a) Somewhat cheap.
(b) Somewhat costly.
(c) Very costly.
(d) Very cheap.

4. Rikyu was a tea master serving his patron lord ____________.
(a) Naomi.
(b) Emi.
(c) Misaki.
(d) Hideyoshi.

5. The guests must hunch down to enter the ______________ door.
(a) Two-foot-high.
(b) Four-foot-high.
(c) Three-foot-high.
(d) One-foot-high.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the art of flower arrangement?

2. Ultimately, what intermingle as to be indistinguishable?

3. Does man have a very long history with flowers?

4. Why did most great tea-masters use Zen concepts for the tea room?

5. Okakura uses this tale to illustrate what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What can cause problems for an artist? How is this a problem?

2. Why does Okakura use this tale?

3. What is the connection between man and flowers?

4. What do tea-masters think of life?

5. What is a Sukiya?

6. How does Okakura illustrate this attitude towards life?

7. How does one enter a tea room?

8. Who is Pai Ya? What does he do with the instrument?

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

10. How have tea-masters furthered art in Japan? What else have they influenced?

(see the answer keys)

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