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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. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
the Spring Festival
Signature
Yangzi
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
2. How many Chinese characters are there
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Renminbi Yuan
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Yangzi
3. What are the four treasures of the study (w
Dessert (Small Heart)
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Signature
4. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
cash
Noodle (Mi
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Black ??
5. The author of 'The Art of War' is
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
55
56 (including Han)
Sun Zi ??
6. What color is considered lucky?
red
1600
Noodle (Mi
the Spring Festival
7. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
Signature
Show emotion
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
East
8. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
her own last name
Gong Xi
1600
cash
9. The population in Mainland China is
bring in good luck and prosperity
Nihao! Zenme y
1.3 Billion
1600
10. And the traditional form of characters is used in
Chinese Americans in USA
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Pinyin
greeting you
11. What is the official romanization system for the language of China?
Pinyin
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
red
greeting you
12. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
East
October 1st
Face to Face
Gong Xi
13. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
Black ??
Hin Jintao
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
4
14. There are often what main courses?
Taiwan - Hong Kong
multiple
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
15. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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16. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Mao Zedong
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Renminbi Yuan
17. What was the Great Wall originally built?
Most senior ranking attendee
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Nihao! Zenme y
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
18. Where is the Great Wall?
NE quadrant
Chinese Americans in USA
her own last name
Nihao! Zenme y
19. How did Kung Fu start?
2500
Nihao! Zenme y
Shuo W
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
20. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
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
Afghanistan
21. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
Renminbi Yuan
just over 8
2
communist
22. With what are Zongzi traditionally wrapped before they are steamed?
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Bamboo leaves
Hin Jintao
23. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
False
2
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Mao Zedong
24. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
Beijing
you could wipe away your good fortune
bring in good luck and prosperity
Inflate your prices
25. The largest ethnic group in China is called
Han
Bamboo leaves
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
55
26. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
1.3 Billion
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
cat
27. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
Face to Face
title
Bamboo leaves
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
28. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
1.3 Billion
Show emotion
noodles
29. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
4
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
false
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
30. When is China's National Day?
2
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
red
October 1st
31. What is the name of the tray with eight compartments that is offered to guests?
Tray of Togetherness
white rice
just over 8
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
32. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
China - Signapore
Fourth
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
33. What does Kung Fu mean?
the lantern celebration
bring in good luck and prosperity
learned skill
2
34. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
Fortune cookies
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
NE quadrant
35. Most people live in the_______of China
Peach (T
East
Hin Jintao
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
36. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
Television
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
NE quadrant
Peach (T
37. When you hear a person mention my 'Ai Ren' (Ai means love - and Ren means person) - the meaning of the word 'Ai Ren' is:
Mao Zedong
Hong Kong
adult content
wife or husband
38. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
China - Signapore
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Great Wall of China
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
39. What is the national drink for Chinese?
greeting you
multiple
Tea (Cha)
Afghanistan
40. What is the money China called?
False
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
East
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
41. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
Black ??
the lantern celebration
Peach (T
True
42. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
Peach (T
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Inflate your prices
Shuo W
43. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
just over 8
Red and Yellow
Dragon Boat Festival
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
44. ____________ were not invented in China?
Mao Zedong
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Fortune cookies
Mao Zedong
45. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
Renminbi Yuan
learned skill
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Hong Kong
46. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
Mao Zedong
October 1st
cash
with both hands
47. What is the state religion in China?
Renminbi Yuan
Noodle (Mi
15
Atheism
48. Chinese New year is also known as what?
the Spring Festival
wife or husband
noodles
Mandarin Chinese
49. What economy does China have?
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Taiwan
communist
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
50. What does 'radical' means?
False
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Parts of Chinese characters
yuan - renminbi in Chinese