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Chinese Culture
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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. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
Gong Xi
Parts of Chinese characters
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
1.3 Billion
2. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
Show emotion
the Shaolin Monks
15
false
3. What is the highest mountain in China?
title
Emperor and Empress
Black ??
Mt. Everest
4. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
1600
limp and brief
Bamboo leaves
Dragon Boat Festival
5. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
Hong boa or Lai see
Television
Inflate your prices
East
6. What are the four great invention of China?
55
people's money
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Dessert (Small Heart)
7. What are the four treasures of the study (w
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
8. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
just over 8
Mao Zedong
Black ??
2500
9. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Beijing
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
10. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
4
Red and Yellow
Television
Afghanistan
11. What does Kung Fu mean?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
learned skill
xu Sh
Great Wall of China
12. 'Dim Sum' means
Dessert (Small Heart)
Chinese Americans in USA
2500
Taiwan - Hong Kong
13. What is the money China called?
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
title
cash
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
14. List some Chinese inventions.
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
China - Signapore
Bamboo leaves
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
15. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
Dragon Boat Festival
Emperor and Empress
Red and Yellow
Show emotion
16. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
Hong Kong
1600
her own last name
adult content
17. Where does the Giant Panda live?
Mt. Everest
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
greeting you
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
18. How many ethnic groups are there in China?
56 (including Han)
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
about 275 lbs.
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
19. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
Mao Zedong
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Parts of Chinese characters
Han
20. The top three most population cites in China
the lantern celebration
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Chinese Americans in USA
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
21. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
Dragon Boat Festival
Hong boa or Lai see
2500
55
22. The population in Mainland China is
false
Taiwan
with both hands
1.3 Billion
23. Name three traditional Chinese musical instruments
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
2
Signature
adult content
24. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
56 (including Han)
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Great Wall of China
25. The author of 'The Art of War' is
Yangzi
Sun Zi ??
Parts of Chinese characters
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
26. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
2
Han
Show emotion
Mao Zedong
27. ____________ were not invented in China?
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Fortune cookies
Peach (T
28. When is China's National Day?
October 1st
wife or husband
Afghanistan
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
29. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Signature
East
30. What is the name of the tray with eight compartments that is offered to guests?
Mandarin Chinese
you could wipe away your good fortune
Tray of Togetherness
Noodle (Mi
31. There are often what main courses?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
multiple
Signature
True
32. What does renminbi mean?
33. And the traditional form of characters is used in
Han
East
Taiwan - Hong Kong
title
34. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
Shuo W
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
white rice
Hong boa or Lai see
35. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
Dragon Boat Festival
Face to Face
you could wipe away your good fortune
Beijing
36. It is acceptable to answer phone calls in meetings.
True
2
Parts of Chinese characters
red
37. With what are Zongzi traditionally wrapped before they are steamed?
Nihao! Zenme y
the Spring Festival
Yangzi
Bamboo leaves
38. The Republic of China is located on...
Beijing
Taiwan
Hong boa or Lai see
Great Wall of China
39. What is the official romanization system for the language of China?
Pinyin
just over 8
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
Most senior ranking attendee
40. Where was the fortune cookie original from?
Chinese Americans in USA
Han
Tea (Cha)
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
41. What is the state religion in China?
Atheism
Fortune cookies
Pinyin
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
42. China shares a border with
Afghanistan
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Pinyin
Dessert (Small Heart)
43. What is a very popular food?
Tea (Cha)
Han
Noodle (Mi
white rice
44. Where is the Great Wall?
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Noodle (Mi
Emperor and Empress
NE quadrant
45. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
Noodle (Mi
Mao Zedong
Emperor and Empress
bring in good luck and prosperity
46. Aggressive negotiation tactics are recommended.
false
learned skill
the Shaolin Monks
Red and Yellow
47. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Sun Zi ??
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Emperor and Empress
China - Signapore
48. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
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
1600
56 (including Han)
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
49. What is the longest river in China?
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
her own last name
1600
Yangzi
50. What economy does China have?
Television
communist
Yangzi
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon