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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. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
1.3 Billion
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Chinese Americans in USA
you could wipe away your good fortune
2. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
Fortune cookies
Hong Kong
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
3. What the three common Chinese greetings?
about 275 lbs.
Nihao! Zenme y
Han
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
4. The top three most population cites in China
Taiwan
Black ??
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Face to Face
5. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
learned skill
bring in good luck and prosperity
False
Show emotion
6. Name a public holiday that China has.
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7. A handshake in China often is ...
limp and brief
Tray of Togetherness
cat
Face to Face
8. When a Chinese friend says: 'Have you eaten yet?' to you (in Chinese) - what is the meaning?
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Television
Bamboo leaves
greeting you
9. The author of 'The Art of War' is
Sun Zi ??
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
Bamboo leaves
about 275 lbs.
10. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Signature
Renminbi Yuan
Great Wall of China
11. How should one receive business cards?
with both hands
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
East
Renminbi Yuan
12. When is China's National Day?
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
about 275 lbs.
October 1st
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
13. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
Dragon Boat Festival
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
learned skill
56 (including Han)
14. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
Fourth
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
limp and brief
Hong Kong
15. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Most senior ranking attendee
Noodle (Mi
limp and brief
16. Where is the Great Wall?
4
NE quadrant
title
Great Wall of China
17. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
Dessert (Small Heart)
learned skill
1600
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
18. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
people's money
Peach (T
Renminbi Yuan
China - Signapore
19. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
the Shaolin Monks
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
20. The largest ethnic group in China is called
Renminbi Yuan
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Han
adult content
21. What was the Great Wall originally built?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
xu Sh
Signature
22. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Black ??
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
scare away the evil spirits
23. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Mao Zedong
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
people's money
24. What are dragon dances believed to do?
Signature
Nihao! Zenme y
bring in good luck and prosperity
greeting you
25. And the traditional form of characters is used in
Mt. Everest
limp and brief
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Taiwan - Hong Kong
26. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
2
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
title
27. What is the state religion in China?
Renminbi Yuan
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Atheism
China - Signapore
28. List some Chinese foods.
greeting you
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
Mao Zedong
29. What are the ancient rulers of China called?
Emperor and Empress
Taiwan
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
30. How many Chinese characters are there
2
adult content
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Fourth
31. Most people live in the_______of China
false
Nihao! Zenme y
East
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
32. What does 'radical' means?
Han
Dragon Boat Festival
Parts of Chinese characters
just over 8
33. China shares a border with
1.3 Billion
Afghanistan
cat
October 1st
34. Some animals that make their homes in China.
Renminbi Yuan
Gong Xi
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Mt. Everest
35. There are often what main courses?
2500
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
multiple
Parts of Chinese characters
36. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Mao Zedong
55
the lantern celebration
37. What are the red envelopes called?
1.3 Billion
Hong boa or Lai see
Afghanistan
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
38. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
people's money
Yangzi
Mt. Everest
Great Wall of China
39. ____________ were not invented in China?
title
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
about 275 lbs.
Fortune cookies
40. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
Nihao! Zenme y
Gong Xi
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
41. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
East
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
42. The population in Mainland China is
limp and brief
1.3 Billion
red
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
43. What is the name of the tray with eight compartments that is offered to guests?
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Tray of Togetherness
multiple
Hong boa or Lai see
44. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
limp and brief
the lantern celebration
people's money
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
45. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
cat
False
Taiwan - Hong Kong
greeting you
46. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
her own last name
Mt. Everest
Shuo W
Pinyin
47. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
Black ??
xu Sh
her own last name
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
48. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
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
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Black ??
49. Chinese New year is also known as what?
True
the Spring Festival
noodles
learned skill
50. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
Mandarin Chinese
Bamboo leaves
15
Gong Xi