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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. The Republic of China is located on...
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Taiwan - Hong Kong
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Taiwan
2. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
with both hands
Most senior ranking attendee
the Shaolin Monks
3. With what are Zongzi traditionally wrapped before they are steamed?
Inflate your prices
wife or husband
you could wipe away your good fortune
Bamboo leaves
4. List some Chinese foods.
Renminbi Yuan
just over 8
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
5. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
Tray of Togetherness
4
55
Inflate your prices
6. Some animals that make their homes in China.
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Most senior ranking attendee
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Dessert (Small Heart)
7. What does renminbi mean?
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8. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
Peach (T
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
wife or husband
cat
9. The largest ethnic group in China is called
Han
the Spring Festival
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
10. What is China's currency called?
Renminbi Yuan
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
11. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Peach (T
adult content
12. It is acceptable to answer phone calls in meetings.
Renminbi Yuan
Tea (Cha)
True
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
13. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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14. And the traditional form of characters is used in
the lantern celebration
2500
Show emotion
Taiwan - Hong Kong
15. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
cat
people's money
Nihao! Zenme y
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
16. What is the longest river in China?
Yangzi
Atheism
October 1st
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
17. What is the official romanization system for the language of China?
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Dessert (Small Heart)
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Pinyin
18. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
you could wipe away your good fortune
Pinyin
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
55
19. How did Kung Fu start?
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
the lantern celebration
white rice
Mao Zedong
20. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
Mao Zedong
about 275 lbs.
Hong Kong
56 (including Han)
21. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
East
Emperor and Empress
just over 8
1600
22. How many ethnic groups are there in China?
Emperor and Empress
56 (including Han)
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
2
23. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
Fortune cookies
red
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
noodles
24. What are lion dances believed to do?
scare away the evil spirits
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
25. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
NE quadrant
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Shuo W
26. What are the four great invention of China?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
27. What are the five official religions of China?
Fortune cookies
the lantern celebration
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
2
28. Where does the Giant Panda live?
4
Pinyin
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Nihao! Zenme y
29. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
Inflate your prices
Hong Kong
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
limp and brief
30. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
Mao Zedong
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
Renminbi Yuan
wife or husband
31. Aggressive negotiation tactics are recommended.
false
Shuo W
Face to Face
Atheism
32. The top three most population cites in China
1600
Most senior ranking attendee
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Fortune cookies
33. What does Kung Fu mean?
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
the Shaolin Monks
learned skill
noodles
34. When is China's National Day?
Great Wall of China
Face to Face
October 1st
people's money
35. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
4
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Hin Jintao
36. What does 'radical' means?
Mao Zedong
multiple
Parts of Chinese characters
you could wipe away your good fortune
37. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
greeting you
Most senior ranking attendee
Red and Yellow
Television
38. What is the state religion in China?
Hin Jintao
Nihao! Zenme y
wife or husband
Atheism
39. Most people live in the_______of China
East
15
False
Tray of Togetherness
40. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
Peach (T
Show emotion
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
False
41. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
the lantern celebration
just over 8
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Signature
42. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Black ??
Han
43. What is the national drink for Chinese?
Tea (Cha)
56 (including Han)
1600
Tray of Togetherness
44. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
Signature
2
Tray of Togetherness
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
45. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
Yangzi
Hong Kong
Great Wall of China
cash
46. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
Television
Great Wall of China
Inflate your prices
learned skill
47. What the three common Chinese greetings?
True
Inflate your prices
Nihao! Zenme y
4
48. 'Dim Sum' means
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Dessert (Small Heart)
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Mao Zedong
49. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
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
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
True
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
50. When a Chinese friend says: 'Have you eaten yet?' to you (in Chinese) - what is the meaning?
noodles
2500
greeting you
55