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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. What are a part of the tea room and also Japanese culture in general?
(a) Rebuilding and renewal.
(b) Respect and trust.
(c) Peace and quiet.
(d) Renewing and reusing.

2. To truly appreciate art, one must do what?
(a) Take art lessons.
(b) Spend many hours in a museum
(c) Discipline one's mind to properly receive and perceive art.
(d) Study it quietly.

3. How might the flower be memorialized?
(a) With a poem.
(b) With a song.
(c) With a prayer.
(d) With a monument.

4. Art masters are _________ for their art lives in those who can appreciate it.
(a) Immortal.
(b) Problematic.
(c) Mortal.
(d) Strange.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the place of honor?

2. With what should archaeology not be confused?

3. Some tea-masters aimed for what feeling?

4. They also believed that art begins where?

5. How is the music described?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does one enter a tea room?

2. How do the Japanese show that art is important to them?

3. What is a Sukiya?

4. Why does Okakura use this tale?

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

6. How did tea-masters think of art?

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

8. How are art masters immortal?

9. Who was Rikyu? What problem existed between him and Hideyoshi?

10. Describe the inside of a tea room.

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