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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the tea room?
(a) Suzuki.
(b) Suki.
(c) Sukiya.
(d) Sushi.

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

3. What is it important to remember about this art?
(a) It is not a religious rite.
(b) It is a prayer.
(c) It is a religious rite.
(d) It is a requirement.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During one of these fights, who planted rumors that Rikyu planned to poison his lord?

3. Others were trying to create what feeling?

4. Okakura uses this tale to illustrate what?

5. Finally a harp master named ___________ took the harp.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is done with these selected flowers?

2. How have tea-masters furthered art in Japan? What else have they influenced?

3. What does Okakura say about modern art appreciation?

4. How are art masters immortal?

5. How does one enter a tea room?

6. How is non-symmetry and non-repetition important?

7. How was the Cult of Flowers developed? What is this cult?

8. Describe the inside of a tea room.

9. Describe the attitude of "Flower Masters" towards flowers.

10. How did the art of flower arrangement begin?

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