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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many tried to play the harp--could it be mastered?
(a) Only at night.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Only by a few.

2. Okakura relates what Taoist tale?
(a) Taming of the Harp.
(b) The Harpist.
(c) Taming of the Shrew.
(d) The Musician.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. How much do they cut off tree branches?
(a) The flowers.
(b) The leaves.
(c) The entire branch.
(d) Only as much as is absolutely essential.

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

15. Eastern so-called _____________________ perceive that they deal in death, and so treat flowers carefully and with honor.
(a) "Flower Masters."
(b) "Flower Lovers."
(c) "Flower Monks."
(d) "Flower Priests."

Short Answer Questions

1. Humans have demonstrated again and again that they are what?

2. What are a part of the tea room and also Japanese culture in general?

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

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. Is death a great thing to these masters?

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