Test your basic knowledge |

Chinese Culture

Subject : culture

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
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. What is 'Hong boa' or 'Lai see'?
communist
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing

2. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
adult content
Inflate your prices
Mao Zedong
Tea (Cha)

3. ____________ were not invented in China?
false
Fortune cookies
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Inflate your prices

4. Where is the Great Wall?
Show emotion
NE quadrant
Red and Yellow
her own last name

5. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
False
wife or husband
Taiwan - Hong Kong

6. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Peach (T
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
noodles

7. What is the name of the tray with eight compartments that is offered to guests?
people's money
East
Fortune cookies
Tray of Togetherness

8. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
4
her own last name
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
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

9. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
Black ??
China - Signapore
4
Television

10. There are often what main courses?
cat
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
multiple
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon

11. The population in Mainland China is
1.3 Billion
Bamboo leaves
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
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow

12. What color is considered lucky?
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Mandarin Chinese
red
Noodle (Mi

13. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
the lantern celebration
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Pinyin

14. What is the official romanization system for the language of China?
Pinyin
Black ??
False
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi

15. How many Chinese characters are there
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
the lantern celebration
white rice

16. The top three most population cites in China
Noodle (Mi
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
the Spring Festival
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing

17. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
Mao Zedong
noodles
Mt. Everest
Dragon Boat Festival

18. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
Signature
scare away the evil spirits
greeting you
Dragon Boat Festival

19. What does renminbi mean?

20. How should one receive business cards?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Red and Yellow
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
with both hands

21. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
Inflate your prices
the Spring Festival
Parts of Chinese characters
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness

22. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
Mao Zedong
just over 8
false
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism

23. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
Tea (Cha)
cat
Han
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

24. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
Inflate your prices
wife or husband
Han
cash

25. What are the five official religions of China?
Afghanistan
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Parts of Chinese characters
communist

26. How many ethnic groups are there in China?
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
title
56 (including Han)
Parts of Chinese characters

27. When you hear a person mention my 'Ai Ren' (Ai means love - and Ren means person) - the meaning of the word 'Ai Ren' is:
15
1600
wife or husband
learned skill

28. What are dragon dances believed to do?
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
bring in good luck and prosperity
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi

29. What are the red envelopes called?
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
white rice
limp and brief
Hong boa or Lai see

30. The Republic of China is located on...
white rice
2500
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Taiwan

31. What is a very popular food?
Hong boa or Lai see
white rice
Taiwan
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing

32. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?
1.3 Billion
Signature
Tea (Cha)
title

33. What flower represents courage and hope?
1600
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
people's money

34. Name a public holiday that China has.

35. Chinese New year is also known as what?
Peach (T
the Spring Festival
East
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

36. What economy does China have?
multiple
Mt. Everest
communist
Hong boa or Lai see

37. China shares a border with
Hin Jintao
bring in good luck and prosperity
Afghanistan
56 (including Han)

38. 'Dim Sum' means
Dessert (Small Heart)
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
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Emperor and Empress

39. What the three common Chinese greetings?
15
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Renminbi Yuan
Nihao! Zenme y

40. List some Chinese inventions.
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Television
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Yangzi

41. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Fourth
Red and Yellow
Parts of Chinese characters

42. How did Kung Fu start?
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Pinyin
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans

43. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
xu Sh
Bamboo leaves
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Dragon Boat Festival

44. What was the Great Wall originally built?
Taiwan - Hong Kong
56 (including Han)
Bamboo leaves
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies

45. What is the money China called?
Black ??
learned skill
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Fourth

46. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
Face to Face
people's money
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Television

47. About how much does a Giant Panda weigh?
about 275 lbs.
Tray of Togetherness
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money

48. What is the capital city of The People's Republic of China?
15
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
1.3 Billion
Beijing

49. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
learned skill
the Spring Festival
Signature

50. What does 'radical' means?
Parts of Chinese characters
Gong Xi
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
white rice