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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some tea-masters aimed for what feeling?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Jealousy.

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

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

4. Early tea rooms were connected to what?
(a) Temples.
(b) Homes.
(c) Stores.
(d) Schools.

5. How might the flower be memorialized?
(a) With a prayer.
(b) With a monument.
(c) With a poem.
(d) With a song.

6. Flowers selected in this manner are placed on what?
(a) The "toyota."
(b) The "tokonoma."
(c) The "tokoyoko."
(d) The "tutenkamun."

7. How is the music described?
(a) Powerful and beautiful.
(b) Loud and overbearing.
(c) Smooth and graceful.
(d) Unique and interesting.

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

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

10. When does the host appear?
(a) Only when there is complete silence.
(b) Prior to the arrival of the guests.
(c) At night.
(d) After three days.

11. The lord believed the rumors and condemned Rikyu to what?
(a) Punishment.
(b) Prison.
(c) Death.
(d) Solitary confinement.

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

13. The viewer is drawn to what about the artist?
(a) The artistic choices.
(b) The word choice.
(c) The soul.
(d) The brush strokes.

14. 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.

15. Art masters are _________ for their art lives in those who can appreciate it.
(a) Mortal.
(b) Problematic.
(c) Strange.
(d) Immortal.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is kept in the anteroom?

3. Many things were all consciously ______________, especially during the tea ceremony.

4. Who invented the independent tea room?

5. Tea masters have done what to further art in Japan?

(see the answer keys)

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