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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. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
Tray of Togetherness
Dessert (Small Heart)
Hong boa or Lai see
noodles
2. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
False
3. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
2
Mandarin Chinese
East
4. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?
Taiwan - Hong Kong
title
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
5. What is a very popular food?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Gong Xi
white rice
greeting you
6. What does Kung Fu mean?
Pinyin
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
learned skill
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
7. What are lion dances believed to do?
scare away the evil spirits
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Yangzi
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
8. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
Mandarin Chinese
Dragon Boat Festival
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Emperor and Empress
9. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
Han
Signature
just over 8
the Shaolin Monks
10. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Han
1.3 Billion
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
11. Which of these things did not originally come from China
Television
false
Tea (Cha)
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
12. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
Mt. Everest
the Shaolin Monks
Han
just over 8
13. What is the capital city of The People's Republic of China?
noodles
Bamboo leaves
Beijing
Peach (T
14. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
Mandarin Chinese
Fourth
her own last name
Tray of Togetherness
15. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
Taiwan
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
the lantern celebration
16. What are the five official religions of China?
just over 8
Great Wall of China
True
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
17. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
Shuo W
cat
1600
false
18. What is 'Hong boa' or 'Lai see'?
multiple
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
19. What flower represents courage and hope?
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
people's money
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Red and Yellow
20. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
Black ??
1600
China - Signapore
Fourth
21. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
Beijing
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
cash
noodles
22. What the three common Chinese greetings?
China - Signapore
Black ??
Nihao! Zenme y
communist
23. ____________ were not invented in China?
Fortune cookies
people's money
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
24. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
people's money
Taiwan
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Peach (T
25. What is the money China called?
her own last name
Mao Zedong
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
xu Sh
26. What is the official romanization system for the language of China?
55
Hin Jintao
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Pinyin
27. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
1600
Most senior ranking attendee
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Fourth
28. The author of 'The Art of War' is
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Atheism
Sun Zi ??
Television
29. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
15
wife or husband
Great Wall of China
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
30. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
Yangzi
2500
China - Signapore
cash
31. China shares a border with
red
Afghanistan
false
Mao Zedong
32. Where does the Giant Panda live?
noodles
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
her own last name
Tea (Cha)
33. The largest ethnic group in China is called
Taiwan - Hong Kong
NE quadrant
Han
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
34. What is China's currency called?
Renminbi Yuan
Dragon Boat Festival
with both hands
Great Wall of China
35. What was the Great Wall originally built?
15
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
1.3 Billion
36. The Republic of China is located on...
Taiwan
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
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
37. Name a public holiday that China has.
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38. Name three traditional Chinese musical instruments
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Sun Zi ??
Black ??
Yangzi
39. What does 'radical' means?
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
greeting you
1600
Parts of Chinese characters
40. What is the national drink for Chinese?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Tea (Cha)
41. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
red
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Shuo W
42. The top three most population cites in China
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
xu Sh
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
43. Aggressive negotiation tactics are recommended.
Great Wall of China
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
55
false
44. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
4
False
learned skill
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
45. How should one receive business cards?
55
wife or husband
with both hands
Mao Zedong
46. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
Face to Face
with both hands
Taiwan
Red and Yellow
47. Who is President of the People's Republic of China?
Hin Jintao
Hong boa or Lai see
scare away the evil spirits
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
48. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
you could wipe away your good fortune
Fourth
about 275 lbs.
55
49. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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50. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
Mt. Everest
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Yangzi
her own last name