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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 earliest Chinese dictionary is called
Signature
Bamboo leaves
Han
Shuo W
2. What is a very popular food?
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
white rice
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Mao Zedong
3. What flower represents courage and hope?
cash
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
1600
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
4. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
Han
just over 8
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
5. What is the national drink for Chinese?
Gong Xi
Face to Face
Tea (Cha)
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
6. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?
bring in good luck and prosperity
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
title
Bamboo leaves
7. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
her own last name
Inflate your prices
the Spring Festival
NE quadrant
8. What is the money China called?
NE quadrant
Dessert (Small Heart)
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
cash
9. ____________ were not invented in China?
Fortune cookies
people's money
Mandarin Chinese
15
10. What is the longest river in China?
Yangzi
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Peach (T
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
11. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
False
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Beijing
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
12. And the traditional form of characters is used in
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Taiwan - Hong Kong
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Sun Zi ??
13. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
Hong Kong
xu Sh
China - Signapore
Han
14. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
Mao Zedong
bring in good luck and prosperity
Bamboo leaves
Han
15. What are lion dances believed to do?
scare away the evil spirits
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
NE quadrant
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
16. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
Show emotion
Chinese Americans in USA
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
2500
17. What are the ancient rulers of China called?
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
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 Spring Festival
Emperor and Empress
18. Aggressive negotiation tactics are recommended.
Han
red
false
Atheism
19. The Republic of China is located on...
Atheism
4
learned skill
Taiwan
20. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
her own last name
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
Mao Zedong
21. Where is the Great Wall?
October 1st
Peach (T
NE quadrant
True
22. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
her own last name
Fourth
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Yangzi
23. What does Kung Fu mean?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Hong Kong
Sun Zi ??
learned skill
24. What was the Great Wall originally built?
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
1600
25. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
True
Mao Zedong
Parts of Chinese characters
26. How should one receive business cards?
Afghanistan
Beijing
with both hands
Taiwan
27. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
xu Sh
wife or husband
28. Who is President of the People's Republic of China?
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Red and Yellow
Hin Jintao
29. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
false
Fourth
Signature
scare away the evil spirits
30. Where does the Giant Panda live?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
xu Sh
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Shuo W
31. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
learned skill
you could wipe away your good fortune
scare away the evil spirits
Taiwan - Hong Kong
32. What is the highest mountain in China?
you could wipe away your good fortune
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Mt. Everest
33. There are often what main courses?
Taiwan
multiple
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
34. Chinese New year is also known as what?
the Spring Festival
people's money
noodles
Yangzi
35. When you hear a person mention my 'Ai Ren' (Ai means love - and Ren means person) - the meaning of the word 'Ai Ren' is:
Fortune cookies
wife or husband
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
36. What are the four treasures of the study (w
wife or husband
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
communist
37. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
Parts of Chinese characters
wife or husband
4
55
38. What the three common Chinese greetings?
Noodle (Mi
Nihao! Zenme y
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
white rice
39. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
the Shaolin Monks
red
2500
1600
40. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Face to Face
xu Sh
4
41. Some animals that make their homes in China.
Fortune cookies
the Shaolin Monks
Great Wall of China
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
42. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Han
xu Sh
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
43. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
2
the Spring Festival
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
scare away the evil spirits
44. What are the four great invention of China?
her own last name
scare away the evil spirits
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
the lantern celebration
45. What does the word yellow imply?
limp and brief
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
adult content
East
46. How many year ago was the Great Wall built?
Mao Zedong
Dessert (Small Heart)
2500
56 (including Han)
47. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
learned skill
Shuo W
Dragon Boat Festival
red
48. What does 'radical' means?
bring in good luck and prosperity
wife or husband
Yangzi
Parts of Chinese characters
49. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
Chinese Americans in USA
55
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
China - Signapore
50. How did Kung Fu start?
you could wipe away your good fortune
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Parts of Chinese characters
4