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

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

3. Many tried to play the harp--could it be mastered?
(a) Yes.
(b) Only by a few.
(c) No.
(d) Only at night.

4. 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.

5. The tea room looks small and impoverished, and the construction of one may be __________.
(a) Somewhat cheap.
(b) Very cheap.
(c) Very costly.
(d) Somewhat costly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the place of honor?

2. He gave his precious utensils out to guests, shattered the tea bowl into fragments, and then took his own life by doing what?

3. How many can a tea room accommodate?

4. Humans have demonstrated again and again that they are what?

5. When does the host appear?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the connection between man and flowers?

6. How does one enter a tea room?

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

8. Describe the inside of a tea room.

9. What does Okakura say about modern art appreciation?

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

(see the answer keys)

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