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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. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
NE quadrant
Pinyin
Noodle (Mi
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
2. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Hin Jintao
China - Signapore
Han
3. What flower represents courage and hope?
adult content
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Mt. Everest
4. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
Show emotion
2500
multiple
red
5. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
just over 8
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
6. There are often what main courses?
multiple
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Peach (T
Mt. Everest
7. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
Chinese Americans in USA
Most senior ranking attendee
2
China - Signapore
8. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
China - Signapore
Mao Zedong
Most senior ranking attendee
bring in good luck and prosperity
9. What are lion dances believed to do?
multiple
1.3 Billion
Yangzi
scare away the evil spirits
10. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
learned skill
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
just over 8
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
11. What are the red envelopes called?
Hong boa or Lai see
scare away the evil spirits
limp and brief
Fortune cookies
12. What are dragon dances believed to do?
xu Sh
4
bring in good luck and prosperity
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
13. What is the money China called?
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
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
people's money
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
14. What color is considered lucky?
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
red
Mt. Everest
communist
15. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Red and Yellow
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
16. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
wife or husband
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Most senior ranking attendee
Inflate your prices
17. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
communist
1.3 Billion
cash
Peach (T
18. What is the highest mountain in China?
Mao Zedong
her own last name
1600
Mt. Everest
19. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
Noodle (Mi
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Renminbi Yuan
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
20. How many Chinese characters are there
2
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Chinese Americans in USA
Black ??
21. The top three most population cites in China
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Renminbi Yuan
1600
Black ??
22. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
1600
True
Han
Taiwan - Hong Kong
23. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?
Han
noodles
xu Sh
title
24. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
wife or husband
title
55
25. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
people's money
bring in good luck and prosperity
Hin Jintao
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
26. What is the capital city of The People's Republic of China?
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
communist
Beijing
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
27. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
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
55
cash
Noodle (Mi
28. About how much does a Giant Panda weigh?
Beijing
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
about 275 lbs.
29. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?
True
Dragon Boat Festival
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Face to Face
30. What does renminbi mean?
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31. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
Atheism
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
cat
NE quadrant
32. What is a very popular food?
Shuo W
white rice
xu Sh
Taiwan - Hong Kong
33. How many year ago was the Great Wall built?
Hong boa or Lai see
wife or husband
2500
bring in good luck and prosperity
34. Most people live in the_______of China
East
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
people's money
35. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
adult content
Afghanistan
the lantern celebration
True
36. List some Chinese inventions.
you could wipe away your good fortune
Hong Kong
China - Signapore
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
37. What are the four great invention of China?
title
Signature
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Gong Xi
38. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
Tea (Cha)
15
Most senior ranking attendee
learned skill
39. How did Kung Fu start?
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Mao Zedong
Show emotion
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
40. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
her own last name
Shuo W
Han
41. 'Dim Sum' means
False
white rice
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Dessert (Small Heart)
42. What are the five official religions of China?
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Han
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Taiwan - Hong Kong
43. When a Chinese friend says: 'Have you eaten yet?' to you (in Chinese) - what is the meaning?
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
greeting you
Signature
Yangzi
44. Which of these things did not originally come from China
Shuo W
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Television
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
45. Who is President of the People's Republic of China?
NE quadrant
1.3 Billion
Hin Jintao
Beijing
46. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
limp and brief
her own last name
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
47. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
the Shaolin Monks
Face to Face
greeting you
Dessert (Small Heart)
48. What is 'Hong boa' or 'Lai see'?
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Taiwan
Noodle (Mi
1.3 Billion
49. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
Fourth
people's money
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
white rice
50. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
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
Taiwan
to get rid of the bad luck and the old