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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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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. List some Chinese inventions.
56 (including Han)
false
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Great Wall of China
2. What is a very popular food?
Black ??
white rice
Peach (T
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
3. It is acceptable to answer phone calls in meetings.
Great Wall of China
True
Hong Kong
Hin Jintao
4. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
Gong Xi
Hong Kong
you could wipe away your good fortune
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
5. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
Sun Zi ??
just over 8
false
Face to Face
6. The top three most population cites in China
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Emperor and Empress
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Mandarin Chinese
7. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
Hong boa or Lai see
Red and Yellow
Gong Xi
cat
8. Which of these things did not originally come from China
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Television
about 275 lbs.
4
9. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
1.3 Billion
bring in good luck and prosperity
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
10. What are dragon dances believed to do?
Taiwan
bring in good luck and prosperity
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
false
11. The Republic of China is located on...
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Taiwan
people's money
Shuo W
12. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
Bamboo leaves
Peach (T
Red and Yellow
Mao Zedong
13. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
the Shaolin Monks
Nihao! Zenme y
Dragon Boat Festival
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
14. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
October 1st
noodles
just over 8
2
15. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
communist
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Tea (Cha)
Peach (T
16. 'Dim Sum' means
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Dessert (Small Heart)
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Chinese Americans in USA
17. What are the four great invention of China?
just over 8
Mao Zedong
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
4
18. Some animals that make their homes in China.
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Dragon Boat Festival
Yangzi
Noodle (Mi
19. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
red
Tea (Cha)
Inflate your prices
Black ??
20. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
1600
Atheism
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
21. What does Kung Fu mean?
learned skill
Great Wall of China
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
56 (including Han)
22. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Han
Renminbi Yuan
23. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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24. How should one receive business cards?
with both hands
Television
China - Signapore
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
25. And the traditional form of characters is used in
Tray of Togetherness
False
Taiwan - Hong Kong
2500
26. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
bring in good luck and prosperity
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Great Wall of China
Shuo W
27. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
Mao Zedong
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
title
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
28. There are often what main courses?
Television
multiple
Afghanistan
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
29. Most people live in the_______of China
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
multiple
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
East
30. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
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
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
31. Who is President of the People's Republic of China?
the lantern celebration
False
Hin Jintao
Parts of Chinese characters
32. What is the official language spoken in China?
her own last name
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Mandarin Chinese
scare away the evil spirits
33. What are the four treasures of the study (w
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
people's money
4
Face to Face
34. How many Chinese characters are there
Show emotion
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Noodle (Mi
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
35. The population in Mainland China is
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
scare away the evil spirits
1.3 Billion
you could wipe away your good fortune
36. What does 'radical' means?
Hong Kong
just over 8
Parts of Chinese characters
cat
37. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
Bamboo leaves
Fourth
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
38. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
15
Hong boa or Lai see
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
NE quadrant
39. What are the red envelopes called?
True
Hong boa or Lai see
Beijing
1600
40. The largest ethnic group in China is called
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
greeting you
Han
Parts of Chinese characters
41. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
Parts of Chinese characters
Sun Zi ??
Show emotion
Mao Zedong
42. How many year ago was the Great Wall built?
cash
noodles
2500
15
43. A handshake in China often is ...
Pinyin
1600
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
limp and brief
44. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
Great Wall of China
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
her own last name
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
45. Where is the Great Wall?
NE quadrant
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Atheism
46. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
Beijing
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Noodle (Mi
Shuo W
47. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
Gong Xi
cash
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
48. ____________ were not invented in China?
Nihao! Zenme y
Show emotion
Fortune cookies
Emperor and Empress
49. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Most senior ranking attendee
people's money
Noodle (Mi
50. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
Great Wall of China
her own last name
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi