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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 is China's currency called?
Renminbi Yuan
Mandarin Chinese
Fortune cookies
Fourth
2. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
Mandarin Chinese
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
2
3. Chinese New year is also known as what?
the Spring Festival
Nihao! Zenme y
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
false
4. What are the four great invention of China?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
red
with both hands
Shuo W
5. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
Mao Zedong
the lantern celebration
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Noodle (Mi
6. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
title
Most senior ranking attendee
the lantern celebration
7. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
Show emotion
adult content
the Shaolin Monks
October 1st
8. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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9. Some animals that make their homes in China.
Gong Xi
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Renminbi Yuan
Inflate your prices
10. What is the longest river in China?
Yangzi
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Television
11. 'Dim Sum' means
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Television
Dessert (Small Heart)
false
12. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
2500
Inflate your prices
13. What was the Great Wall originally built?
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
the Spring Festival
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
14. How many year ago was the Great Wall built?
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
false
NE quadrant
2500
15. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Red and Yellow
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
16. What color is considered lucky?
red
xu Sh
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Beijing
17. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Peach (T
Most senior ranking attendee
Emperor and Empress
18. What is the official romanization system for the language of China?
cash
Pinyin
Mao Zedong
xu Sh
19. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
15
people's money
Black ??
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
20. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Parts of Chinese characters
Black ??
Taiwan
21. The largest ethnic group in China is called
Emperor and Empress
Han
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
title
22. Name three traditional Chinese musical instruments
title
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
xu Sh
greeting you
23. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
noodles
Parts of Chinese characters
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
bring in good luck and prosperity
24. What is the money China called?
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Afghanistan
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
2500
25. How should one receive business cards?
False
you could wipe away your good fortune
with both hands
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
26. The author of 'The Art of War' is
1600
Peach (T
xu Sh
Sun Zi ??
27. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
multiple
1600
Noodle (Mi
Signature
28. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
Mao Zedong
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
October 1st
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
29. How many ethnic groups are there in China?
you could wipe away your good fortune
Mandarin Chinese
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
56 (including Han)
30. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
Show emotion
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
greeting you
1600
31. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
Tea (Cha)
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
you could wipe away your good fortune
32. When is China's National Day?
communist
October 1st
noodles
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
33. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
communist
False
Atheism
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
34. ____________ were not invented in China?
55
Fortune cookies
title
China - Signapore
35. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
1600
Fortune cookies
xu Sh
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
36. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
you could wipe away your good fortune
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
the lantern celebration
Mao Zedong
37. What does renminbi mean?
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38. What does the word yellow imply?
1600
Hong boa or Lai see
adult content
title
39. What are lion dances believed to do?
scare away the evil spirits
greeting you
Mt. Everest
Mandarin Chinese
40. About how much does a Giant Panda weigh?
about 275 lbs.
Most senior ranking attendee
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Shuo W
41. What is the national drink for Chinese?
October 1st
Tea (Cha)
Sun Zi ??
title
42. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
the lantern celebration
about 275 lbs.
Face to Face
43. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
limp and brief
the lantern celebration
cash
Sun Zi ??
44. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
55
Pinyin
you could wipe away your good fortune
45. What are the ancient rulers of China called?
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Emperor and Empress
bring in good luck and prosperity
2500
46. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
False
her own last name
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
1600
47. What is the capital city of The People's Republic of China?
Han
Beijing
Emperor and Empress
Hong boa or Lai see
48. China shares a border with
Sun Zi ??
Afghanistan
false
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
49. With what are Zongzi traditionally wrapped before they are steamed?
about 275 lbs.
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
the Shaolin Monks
Bamboo leaves
50. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
East
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Black ??