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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the tea room?
(a) A large barn-like structure.
(b) A dining room.
(c) A simple cottage.
(d) A small room.

3. When asked how he mastered the harp, how did the harpist respond?
(a) He let the harp choose the music.
(b) He tricked the harp.
(c) He spent many hours playing the harp.
(d) He told the harp what to play.

4. 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 sacrifice in the service of a great and noble idea or artistic expression.
(d) A beautiful art form.

5. What is kept in the anteroom?
(a) The tea cups.
(b) The tea bags.
(c) The tea.
(d) The tea utensils.

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

7. Their _________ dress have influenced many Japanese.
(a) Sober.
(b) Dull.
(c) Colorful.
(d) Decorative.

8. What do the great masters never forget?
(a) They are special.
(b) They are immortal.
(c) They are making art for an audience.
(d) They have been given a gift.

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

10. Many things were all consciously ______________, especially during the tea ceremony.
(a) Controlled.
(b) Spoken.
(c) Acknowledged.
(d) Seen.

11. 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?
(a) Westerners do not build wooden structures.
(b) Wood and bamboo do not grow in the West.
(c) Wood is unappealing to many people.
(d) They are brought up to admire stone and brick architecture.

12. Flowers are a natural beauty that inspires what?
(a) The lonely soul.
(b) The religious soul.
(c) The artistic soul.
(d) The happy soul.

13. What can the name of the tea room mean?
(a) Abode of Vacancy, Abode of Taoism, and Abode of Fancy.
(b) Abode of Fancy, Abode of Vacancy, and Abode of the Unsymmetrical.
(c) Abode of Love, Abode of Tea, and Abode of Peace.
(d) Abode of Simplicity, Abode of Fancy, and Abode of Tea.

14. How does Okakura feel about modern art appreciation?
(a) He supports it.
(b) He enjoys it.
(c) He encourages it.
(d) He laments it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of the garden path?

2. With what should archaeology not be confused?

3. Tea-masters, in choosing art for their ceremonies, only choose what pieces?

4. What happens when the flower withers?

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

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