View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Flowers and trees are selected how?
(a) Very carefully.
(b) Very slowly.
(c) Very hastily.
(d) Very quickly.

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

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

4. Is death a great thing to these masters?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Often.
(d) Sometimes.

5. Tea master influence is reflected in aspects of what?
(a) Tea ceremonies.
(b) Japanese education.
(c) Meals.
(d) Everyday life.

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

7. If something is ancient, is it valuable?
(a) Not necessarily.
(b) Yes, usually.
(c) No, never.
(d) Yes, always.

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

9. Ultimately, what intermingle as to be indistinguishable?
(a) Artist and musician.
(b) Art and artist.
(c) Art and music.
(d) Sociology and music.

10. Art loving is compared to what experience?
(a) A religious experience.
(b) A learning experience.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Sleeping.

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

12. Of what did he sing?
(a) Silence.
(b) Love and war.
(c) Peace and harmony.
(d) Nature, beauty, war, and many other aspects of life.

13. As what is the portico used?
(a) A place for serving tea.
(b) An art gallery.
(c) A waiting area for guests prior to tea being served.
(d) A room for making tea.

14. During one of these fights, who planted rumors that Rikyu planned to poison his lord?
(a) Rikyu.
(b) Enemies of Rikyu.
(c) Rikyu's friends.
(d) Other tea-masters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How might the flower be memorialized?

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

3. The tea room not only contrasts Western architecture, it is quite different from what?

4. Where are a massive amount of flowers used and then tossed out, with no appreciation or consideration for the sacrifice of the flower?

5. Some tea-masters aimed for what feeling?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 435 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample