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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. Flowers and trees are selected how?
(a) Very hastily.
(b) Very quickly.
(c) Very slowly.
(d) Very carefully.

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

3. Tea-masters are _______________ when choosing the art.
(a) Quite selective.
(b) Quite quick.
(c) Quite slow.
(d) Quite unusual.

4. Rikyu had a final, magnificent ___________________.
(a) Song.
(b) Tea ceremony.
(c) Lunch.
(d) Dance.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ultimately, what intermingle as to be indistinguishable?

3. What is the name of the tea room?

4. The tea room is primarily derived in spirit from what?

5. As what is the portico used?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Rikyu? What problem existed between him and Hideyoshi?

3. What do tea-masters think of life?

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

5. What is the connection between man and flowers?

6. Describe the inside of a tea room.

7. Why might it be difficult for Westerners to appreciate Japanese architecture?

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

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

10. Do humans deserve flowers, according to the author? Explain.

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