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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Tea-masters were conscious of art as what?
(a) A living.
(b) A hobby.
(c) A form of entertainment.
(d) A sport.

3. Finally a harp master named ___________ took the harp.
(a) Unenko Tomomi.
(b) Yoko Sayuri.
(c) Rin Miu.
(d) Pai Ya.

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

5. Why did Rikyu frequently have arguments with his patron lord?
(a) His patron lord was unkind.
(b) He was never content to be servile.
(c) They often did not see eye to eye.
(d) He liked to stir up trouble.

6. Where are a massive amount of flowers used and then tossed out, with no appreciation or consideration for the sacrifice of the flower?
(a) In the South.
(b) In the East.
(c) In the West.
(d) In the North.

7. How many can a tea room accommodate?
(a) No more than ten people.
(b) No more than twenty people.
(c) No more than five people.
(d) No more than two people.

8. Eastern plant care is an ancient art and treasured custom, and from this tea-masters have developed what is called what?
(a) The Church of Flowers.
(b) The Cult of Flowers.
(c) The Temple of Flowers.
(d) The Monastery of Flowers.

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

10. Rikyu had a final, magnificent ___________________.
(a) Dance.
(b) Tea ceremony.
(c) Song.
(d) Lunch.

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

12. 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.

13. Tea masters have done what to further art in Japan?
(a) Not much.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Very little.
(d) Much.

14. On what does modern art appreciation depend?
(a) More on fashion and word of mouth than genuine, individual love for art.
(b) More on fashion than word of mouth.
(c) More on word of mouth than fashion.
(d) More on genuine, individual love for art, than on fashion and word of mouth.

15. Even the tea-master was ______ himself.
(a) Music.
(b) Art.
(c) A flower.
(d) Unique.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tea room?

2. Okakura laments that the flower was born how?

3. They also believed that art begins where?

4. Can vain artists, absorbed with their own genius, ever truly connect with others?

5. A masterpiece viewed in this way becomes what?

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