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

2. A masterpiece viewed in this way becomes what?
(a) An "educational experience."
(b) A "sterile object."
(c) A "restful place."
(d) A "living reality."

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

4. How does Okakura feel about modern art appreciation?
(a) He encourages it.
(b) He laments it.
(c) He enjoys it.
(d) He supports it.

5. With what should archaeology not be confused?
(a) Art.
(b) Innovation.
(c) Science.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is kept in the anteroom?

2. Okakura laments that the flower was born how?

3. Flowers are a natural beauty that inspires what?

4. Okakura relates what Taoist tale?

5. Can vain artists, absorbed with their own genius, ever truly connect with others?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do tea-masters think of life?

2. Describe the inside of a tea room.

3. Why is the tea room intended to be barren?

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

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

6. How can one truly appreciate art?

7. What is done with these selected flowers?

8. What is a Sukiya?

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

10. What is the connection between man and flowers?

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