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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. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
Renminbi Yuan
Shuo W
Mao Zedong
2
2. What is the highest mountain in China?
Mt. Everest
multiple
just over 8
2
3. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Great Wall of China
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Fortune cookies
4. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
about 275 lbs.
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
5. What economy does China have?
people's money
communist
Inflate your prices
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
6. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
Shuo W
True
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
the Shaolin Monks
7. What are the red envelopes called?
the Shaolin Monks
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Hong boa or Lai see
scare away the evil spirits
8. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Television
Tea (Cha)
9. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
Dragon Boat Festival
red
bring in good luck and prosperity
Fourth
10. What is the money China called?
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
with both hands
Hong Kong
Taiwan - Hong Kong
11. Chinese New year is also known as what?
the Spring Festival
learned skill
cat
just over 8
12. A handshake in China often is ...
2
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
wife or husband
limp and brief
13. What does the word yellow imply?
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
the lantern celebration
adult content
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
14. What does Kung Fu mean?
learned skill
Sun Zi ??
you could wipe away your good fortune
1600
15. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
Mao Zedong
Signature
Great Wall of China
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
16. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
Dragon Boat Festival
Mao Zedong
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Hin Jintao
17. What are the four treasures of the study (w
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
red
false
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
18. What color is considered lucky?
limp and brief
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
red
19. What is the official language spoken in China?
Beijing
Most senior ranking attendee
Mandarin Chinese
Taiwan
20. What are lion dances believed to do?
Renminbi Yuan
Yangzi
False
scare away the evil spirits
21. With what are Zongzi traditionally wrapped before they are steamed?
Emperor and Empress
Bamboo leaves
Dessert (Small Heart)
Red and Yellow
22. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Tray of Togetherness
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Han
23. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
Signature
bring in good luck and prosperity
East
Most senior ranking attendee
24. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
55
Nihao! Zenme y
East
4
25. List some Chinese foods.
adult content
Dessert (Small Heart)
Mandarin Chinese
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
26. It is acceptable to answer phone calls in meetings.
Inflate your prices
limp and brief
communist
True
27. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
her own last name
Red and Yellow
Taiwan
28. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
red
Face to Face
false
the lantern celebration
29. When you hear a person mention my 'Ai Ren' (Ai means love - and Ren means person) - the meaning of the word 'Ai Ren' is:
greeting you
Atheism
wife or husband
Signature
30. The population in Mainland China is
1.3 Billion
greeting you
Fortune cookies
2
31. What are the five official religions of China?
Dessert (Small Heart)
Bamboo leaves
the Shaolin Monks
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
32. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
Noodle (Mi
with both hands
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
False
33. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
cat
56 (including Han)
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
34. ____________ were not invented in China?
Pinyin
Sun Zi ??
Fortune cookies
Tea (Cha)
35. The author of 'The Art of War' is
55
Red and Yellow
Sun Zi ??
adult content
36. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Renminbi Yuan
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
37. Where was the fortune cookie original from?
xu Sh
limp and brief
Chinese Americans in USA
False
38. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
Taiwan - Hong Kong
15
Han
xu Sh
39. What flower represents courage and hope?
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Black ??
adult content
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
40. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
Fourth
Tray of Togetherness
just over 8
1600
41. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
Nihao! Zenme y
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Show emotion
xu Sh
42. China shares a border with
the Spring Festival
Bamboo leaves
learned skill
Afghanistan
43. Which of these things did not originally come from China
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Black ??
Television
Beijing
44. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
Television
Mt. Everest
4
Taiwan - Hong Kong
45. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
the lantern celebration
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
46. There are often what main courses?
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
multiple
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Chinese Americans in USA
47. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
Show emotion
cash
Taiwan
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
48. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
multiple
Gong Xi
China - Signapore
false
49. What is 'Hong boa' or 'Lai see'?
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Emperor and Empress
adult content
Gong Xi
50. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
False
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
red
Han