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Chinese Culture

Subject : 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. What is a very popular food?






2. When is China's National Day?






3. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?






4. What are the five official religions of China?






5. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?






6. When you hear a person mention my 'Ai Ren' (Ai means love - and Ren means person) - the meaning of the word 'Ai Ren' is:






7. How should one receive business cards?






8. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?






9. What is the name of the tray with eight compartments that is offered to guests?






10. How many Chinese characters are there






11. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year






12. What are the four great invention of China?






13. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?






14. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?






15. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?






16. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?






17. What was the Great Wall originally built?






18. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?






19. What colors are on the Chinese flag?






20. What flower represents courage and hope?






21. What is the money China called?






22. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called






23. There are often what main courses?






24. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)






25. The largest ethnic group in China is called






26. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?






27. Which of these things did not originally come from China






28. How many ethnic groups are there in China?






29. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?






30. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?






31. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called






32. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?


33. How many year ago was the Great Wall built?






34. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?






35. China shares a border with






36. What does 'radical' means?






37. Simplified Chinese character system is used in






38. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949






39. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?






40. What color is considered lucky?






41. What does the word yellow imply?






42. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China






43. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?






44. What does Kung Fu mean?






45. What are the ancient rulers of China called?






46. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :






47. It is acceptable to answer phone calls in meetings.






48. What is the state religion in China?






49. ____________ were not invented in China?






50. What is the official language spoken in China?