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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. Lastly, tea masters have an understanding of the ________________ of life.
(a) Brevity.
(b) Dullness.
(c) Waste.
(d) Quality.

2. If something is ancient, is it valuable?
(a) No, never.
(b) Yes, usually.
(c) Yes, always.
(d) Not necessarily.

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

4. Tea-masters justify the cutting of flowers by viewing it as what?
(a) A beautiful art form.
(b) A need of the people.
(c) A requirement to keep the flower population in check.
(d) A sacrifice in the service of a great and noble idea or artistic expression.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When asked how he mastered the harp, how did the harpist respond?

2. What happens when the flower withers?

3. Why did Rikyu frequently have arguments with his patron lord?

4. What is kept in the anteroom?

5. Art loving is compared to what experience?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the inside of a tea room.

3. How can one truly appreciate art?

4. How are art masters immortal?

5. How does one enter a tea room?

6. What story does Okakura tell? What is the problem with the instrument in the book?

7. What is done with these selected flowers?

8. Describe the attitude of "Flower Masters" towards flowers.

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

10. How did tea-masters think of art?

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