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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the garden path?
(a) It is a place to drink tea.
(b) It connects the larger structure with the tea room.
(c) It surrounds the tea room.
(d) It is a place to relax.

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

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

4. What is the place of honor?
(a) The "toyota."
(b) The "tokonoma."
(c) The "tutenkamun."
(d) The "tokoyoko."

5. 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 is unappealing to many people.
(c) They are brought up to admire stone and brick architecture.
(d) Wood and bamboo do not grow in the West.

6. Who created the art of flower arrangement?
(a) Tea masters.
(b) Buddhist monks.
(c) Catholic priests.
(d) Hindu priests.

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

8. How will guests salute this flower upon entering the space?
(a) With a dance.
(b) With a song.
(c) With a kiss.
(d) With a profound bow.

9. Who invented the independent tea room?
(a) Aiko.
(b) Rikyu.
(c) Beniko.
(d) Teiko.

10. The art of flower arrangement began with whom?
(a) Buddhist saints.
(b) Hindu priests.
(c) Zennist monks.
(d) Christian disciples.

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

12. Tea-masters are _______________ when choosing the art.
(a) Quite unusual.
(b) Quite quick.
(c) Quite selective.
(d) Quite slow.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When asked how he mastered the harp, how did the harpist respond?

3. The tea room is primarily derived in spirit from what?

4. On what does modern art appreciation depend?

5. The lord believed the rumors and condemned Rikyu to what?

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