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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. They also believed that art begins where?
(a) In nature.
(b) In a picture.
(c) Within.
(d) In a paint palette.

3. Humans have demonstrated again and again that they are what?
(a) Monsters unworthy of the flower.
(b) Unsure about flowers.
(c) Uneducated about flowers.
(d) Worthy of the flower.

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

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

6. Tea-masters, in choosing art for their ceremonies, only choose what pieces?
(a) Those that their patrons like.
(b) Those which specifically speak to them.
(c) Those that suit their tea.
(d) Those that are most expensive.

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

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

9. There was once a great harp crafted from what?
(a) The hair of a god.
(b) The finest tree in the land.
(c) Gold.
(d) Tea.

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

11. Can vain artists, absorbed with their own genius, ever truly connect with others?
(a) No, not often.
(b) Yes, always.
(c) No, never.
(d) Yes, most of the time.

12. The tea room not only contrasts Western architecture, it is quite different from what?
(a) Japanese wood architecture.
(b) Korean architecture.
(c) Chinese architecture.
(d) Asian architecture.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. If something is ancient, is it valuable?

2. Who invented the independent tea room?

3. Many tried to play the harp--could it be mastered?

4. Lastly, tea masters have an understanding of the ________________ of life.

5. A masterpiece viewed in this way becomes what?

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