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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 days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
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
Renminbi Yuan
15
2. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
Bamboo leaves
Noodle (Mi
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Han
3. What is the longest river in China?
4
October 1st
Yangzi
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
4. What is the state religion in China?
Atheism
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
1.3 Billion
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
5. What are the four great invention of China?
Hong Kong
Sun Zi ??
adult content
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
6. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
Fourth
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Inflate your prices
4
7. What is the highest mountain in China?
Mt. Everest
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
bring in good luck and prosperity
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
8. Where was the fortune cookie original from?
Chinese Americans in USA
Yangzi
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Bamboo leaves
9. 'Dim Sum' means
Noodle (Mi
false
Dessert (Small Heart)
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
10. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?
Inflate your prices
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
56 (including Han)
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
11. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
Emperor and Empress
just over 8
Mt. Everest
xu Sh
12. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
scare away the evil spirits
Emperor and Empress
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
2
13. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
Black ??
2
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Fourth
14. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
Tea (Cha)
the Shaolin Monks
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
15. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
Face to Face
Great Wall of China
about 275 lbs.
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
16. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
1600
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Dessert (Small Heart)
Signature
17. What does renminbi mean?
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18. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
her own last name
title
with both hands
white rice
19. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
bring in good luck and prosperity
1600
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
20. The top three most population cites in China
Han
Signature
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
21. There are often what main courses?
Shuo W
adult content
you could wipe away your good fortune
multiple
22. When is China's National Day?
about 275 lbs.
the lantern celebration
October 1st
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
23. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
cat
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
56 (including Han)
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
24. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Black ??
2
2500
25. Aggressive negotiation tactics are recommended.
Hong boa or Lai see
false
Red and Yellow
red
26. What is the money China called?
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Inflate your prices
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
with both hands
27. What are lion dances believed to do?
scare away the evil spirits
Renminbi Yuan
NE quadrant
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
28. List some Chinese foods.
cash
Taiwan
Dessert (Small Heart)
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
29. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
Noodle (Mi
Television
Peach (T
noodles
30. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
2500
Shuo W
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
31. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
wife or husband
bring in good luck and prosperity
title
the lantern celebration
32. What is a very popular food?
noodles
Mt. Everest
4
white rice
33. What are the ancient rulers of China called?
Black ??
just over 8
cat
Emperor and Empress
34. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Han
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
greeting you
Fortune cookies
35. What color is considered lucky?
red
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
55
cat
36. Where does the Giant Panda live?
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Red and Yellow
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Sun Zi ??
37. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
her own last name
with both hands
Face to Face
56 (including Han)
38. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
scare away the evil spirits
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
you could wipe away your good fortune
Emperor and Empress
39. What is 'Hong boa' or 'Lai see'?
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Atheism
greeting you
40. What does the word yellow imply?
Tray of Togetherness
Television
Signature
adult content
41. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
2500
Mao Zedong
42. What are the five official religions of China?
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
1600
just over 8
Bamboo leaves
43. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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44. What is China's currency called?
multiple
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Renminbi Yuan
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
45. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
with both hands
Sun Zi ??
55
multiple
46. Name three traditional Chinese musical instruments
Most senior ranking attendee
white rice
Mao Zedong
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
47. How many year ago was the Great Wall built?
2500
Mao Zedong
Most senior ranking attendee
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
48. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
East
bring in good luck and prosperity
Most senior ranking attendee
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
49. What are the red envelopes called?
Hong boa or Lai see
Black ??
communist
1.3 Billion
50. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
title
Black ??
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
communist