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Chinese Culture
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Subject
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culture
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. How many ethnic groups are there in China?
Great Wall of China
you could wipe away your good fortune
56 (including Han)
Face to Face
2. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
xu Sh
Fourth
scare away the evil spirits
Noodle (Mi
3. What is China's currency called?
Bamboo leaves
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
red
Renminbi Yuan
4. What are the ancient rulers of China called?
Fourth
Emperor and Empress
1.3 Billion
55
5. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
noodles
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
October 1st
1600
6. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
cash
Gong Xi
7. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
Renminbi Yuan
Signature
Hong boa or Lai see
scare away the evil spirits
8. What is a very popular food?
1.3 Billion
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
white rice
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
9. What is the official romanization system for the language of China?
Pinyin
15
Bamboo leaves
Parts of Chinese characters
10. What are the red envelopes called?
Mao Zedong
Hong boa or Lai see
with both hands
xu Sh
11. The author of 'The Art of War' is
Signature
with both hands
Sun Zi ??
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
12. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
Fourth
Inflate your prices
2
Mandarin Chinese
13. There are often what main courses?
multiple
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Hong boa or Lai see
14. It is acceptable to answer phone calls in meetings.
True
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
adult content
Great Wall of China
15. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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16. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
NE quadrant
Han
Dragon Boat Festival
17. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
the lantern celebration
Black ??
adult content
Inflate your prices
18. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
Face to Face
Red and Yellow
scare away the evil spirits
title
19. The largest ethnic group in China is called
Hin Jintao
Han
Bamboo leaves
Black ??
20. Chinese New year is also known as what?
Chinese Americans in USA
the Spring Festival
March 8th is International Women's Day - on this day women will get a paid day or half day off - while all men must still go to work; May 1st is International Labor Day; May 4th is Youth Day - in memory of the first mass student movement in 1919; Jun
Mao Zedong
21. Some animals that make their homes in China.
Tray of Togetherness
Bamboo leaves
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
22. Where is the Great Wall?
NE quadrant
Shuo W
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Dragon Boat Festival
23. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
Mao Zedong
200 B.C. - people feared 'Nien' the mythical - evil monster - so they would make loud noises bright lights - and big dragons to scare it off
NE quadrant
about 275 lbs.
24. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
Inflate your prices
NE quadrant
Fourth
Gong Xi
25. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
2500
Show emotion
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
False
26. When is China's National Day?
the lantern celebration
October 1st
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
cat
27. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
her own last name
people's money
2500
Han
28. How did Kung Fu start?
you could wipe away your good fortune
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Hong boa or Lai see
29. List some Chinese inventions.
limp and brief
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
200 B.C. - people feared 'Nien' the mythical - evil monster - so they would make loud noises bright lights - and big dragons to scare it off
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
30. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
Yangzi
Show emotion
cat
the Shaolin Monks
31. What the three common Chinese greetings?
2500
the Spring Festival
multiple
Nihao! Zenme y
32. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
false
1.3 Billion
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
her own last name
33. When you hear a person mention my 'Ai Ren' (Ai means love - and Ren means person) - the meaning of the word 'Ai Ren' is:
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
wife or husband
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
34. List some Chinese foods.
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
title
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
xu Sh
35. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
Han
multiple
Hong boa or Lai see
East
36. What is the highest mountain in China?
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Noodle (Mi
Mt. Everest
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
37. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
Shuo W
Hong Kong
cat
Parts of Chinese characters
38. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
Peach (T
Yangzi
just over 8
4
39. What are the four great invention of China?
Taiwan
2500
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
multiple
40. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
2500
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Beijing
15
41. What is the official language spoken in China?
Emperor and Empress
Mandarin Chinese
with both hands
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
42. What does the word yellow imply?
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
adult content
Mao Zedong
her own last name
43. What are dragon dances believed to do?
about 275 lbs.
bring in good luck and prosperity
wife or husband
with both hands
44. What is the longest river in China?
people's money
Yangzi
55
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
45. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
communist
Parts of Chinese characters
Mao Zedong
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
46. What is the money China called?
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
cash
200 B.C. - people feared 'Nien' the mythical - evil monster - so they would make loud noises bright lights - and big dragons to scare it off
1600
47. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
East
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
48. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
bring in good luck and prosperity
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Afghanistan
noodles
49. The Republic of China is located on...
Beijing
about 275 lbs.
Signature
Taiwan
50. What flower represents courage and hope?
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Tray of Togetherness