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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. To truly appreciate art, one must do what?
(a) Spend many hours in a museum
(b) Discipline one's mind to properly receive and perceive art.
(c) Take art lessons.
(d) Study it quietly.

2. Can vain artists, absorbed with their own genius, ever truly connect with others?
(a) No, not often.
(b) Yes, most of the time.
(c) Yes, always.
(d) No, never.

3. The guests must hunch down to enter the ______________ door.
(a) Three-foot-high.
(b) Two-foot-high.
(c) Four-foot-high.
(d) One-foot-high.

4. This door, forcing everyone to hunch down, was meant to do what?
(a) Inspire humility.
(b) Humiliate.
(c) Be uncomfortable.
(d) Embarrass.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. He gave his precious utensils out to guests, shattered the tea bowl into fragments, and then took his own life by doing what?

2. Many tried to play the harp--could it be mastered?

3. What is it important to remember about this art?

4. Is death a great thing to these masters?

5. How will guests salute this flower upon entering the space?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the art of flower arrangement begin?

3. What do tea-masters think of life?

4. What is the connection between man and flowers?

5. Describe early tea rooms and how they changed with the innovations of Rikyu.

6. Who is Pai Ya? What does he do with the instrument?

7. How is the tea room different from other forms of architecture?

8. How did Rikyu's life come to an end?

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

10. Describe the inside of a tea room.

(see the answer keys)

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