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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the place of honor?

2. Eastern plant care is an ancient art and treasured custom, and from this tea-masters have developed what is called what?

3. Tea-masters were conscious of art as what?

4. Why did most great tea-masters use Zen concepts for the tea room?

5. The tea room not only contrasts Western architecture, it is quite different from what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do tea-masters think of life?

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

3. How did tea-masters think of art?

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

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

6. How does Okakura illustrate this attitude towards life?

7. Why does Okakura use this tale?

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

9. What is done with these selected flowers?

10. What can cause problems for an artist? How is this a problem?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Humans have demonstrated that they are unworthy of the flower.

Part 1) How have humans demonstrated this? Is the flower unique to being mistreated by man? Explain.

Part 2) How does the Cult of Flowers try to go against this fact? Do Americans treat flowers with respect? Why or why not?

Part 3) Are humans worthy of anything? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

There are three eras of tea.

Part 1) What are the three main tea eras? Describe each of them and explain how each of them come to be? How are they connected?

Part 2) How does each era reflect the Japanese culture of the time? Does the tea era influence the culture or does the culture influence the tea era? Explain.

Part 3) How does art in America today reflect life? How has American art evolved to be what it is today?

Essay Topic 3

Tea began as a medicine and only gradually grew into a beverage.

Part 1) Describe the medicinal uses of tea. How did this gradually lead to tea being a beverage? How did this beverage then spread throughout the world?

Part 2) What are the three main tea eras? How did each begin? How is each era unique? What commonalities exist between these eras? What influenced how tea was made and how it was served? How important is the tea room in the tea service? How does the tea room reflect the tea master and the tea that is being served?

Part 3) How has the U.S. been affected by the spread of the popularity of tea? How is tea a part of our culture today? How does U.S. tea culture compare to the Japanese tea culture described in the book? Is one tea culture superior? If so, how? If not, why not?

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