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Chinese Culture
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Study First
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. A handshake in China often is ...
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
learned skill
you could wipe away your good fortune
limp and brief
2. It is acceptable to answer phone calls in meetings.
True
Taiwan - Hong Kong
55
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
3. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
56 (including Han)
Noodle (Mi
Sun Zi ??
Black ??
4. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
Gong Xi
Shuo W
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
red
5. List some Chinese inventions.
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Show emotion
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
wife or husband
6. Chinese New year is also known as what?
limp and brief
Mandarin Chinese
Mt. Everest
the Spring Festival
7. What are the four great invention of China?
Black ??
Mao Zedong
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Mandarin Chinese
8. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
China - Signapore
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Atheism
56 (including Han)
9. Name a public holiday that China has.
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10. When is China's National Day?
Han
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
October 1st
11. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
East
Sun Zi ??
NE quadrant
Signature
12. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
NE quadrant
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Fortune cookies
4
13. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
Shuo W
56 (including Han)
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Face to Face
14. How many ethnic groups are there in China?
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
just over 8
56 (including Han)
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
15. What is the national drink for Chinese?
multiple
Tea (Cha)
Renminbi Yuan
Pinyin
16. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Tea (Cha)
xu Sh
17. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
cash
Black ??
learned skill
Shuo W
18. 'Dim Sum' means
Dessert (Small Heart)
Atheism
adult content
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
19. Which of these things did not originally come from China
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Dragon Boat Festival
wife or husband
Television
20. What color is considered lucky?
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
red
just over 8
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
21. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
her own last name
Inflate your prices
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Dragon Boat Festival
22. What are the five official religions of China?
Inflate your prices
Taiwan - Hong Kong
title
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
23. What does the word yellow imply?
adult content
scare away the evil spirits
2
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
24. The author of 'The Art of War' is
Sun Zi ??
cash
communist
false
25. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Great Wall of China
Mao Zedong
the Shaolin Monks
26. There are often what main courses?
false
Hin Jintao
True
multiple
27. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
East
4
Red and Yellow
Tea (Cha)
28. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?
Atheism
with both hands
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
2
29. What is the name of the tray with eight compartments that is offered to guests?
Television
Mt. Everest
Tray of Togetherness
multiple
30. What flower represents courage and hope?
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Dessert (Small Heart)
56 (including Han)
false
31. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
the Shaolin Monks
learned skill
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Yangzi
32. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
Nihao! Zenme y
Fourth
the Spring Festival
True
33. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
Inflate your prices
you could wipe away your good fortune
scare away the evil spirits
True
34. With what are Zongzi traditionally wrapped before they are steamed?
Parts of Chinese characters
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
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
Bamboo leaves
35. The top three most population cites in China
adult content
Hin Jintao
False
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
36. The population in Mainland China is
Fortune cookies
True
1.3 Billion
2500
37. ____________ were not invented in China?
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
cat
Fortune cookies
Atheism
38. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
Fourth
Shuo W
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Mao Zedong
39. How many Chinese characters are there
noodles
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Dragon Boat Festival
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
40. What the three common Chinese greetings?
Nihao! Zenme y
her own last name
communist
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
41. What is the money China called?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
True
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
multiple
42. What does renminbi mean?
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43. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
15
Hong Kong
Show emotion
Atheism
44. What are the four treasures of the study (w
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Shuo W
multiple
45. What is the highest mountain in China?
Mt. Everest
false
red
True
46. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Han
Inflate your prices
Mao Zedong
47. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
China - Signapore
2
limp and brief
Mao Zedong
48. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
Dragon Boat Festival
about 275 lbs.
false
cat
49. What are the red envelopes called?
Sun Zi ??
Television
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Hong boa or Lai see
50. What is China's currency 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
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
1.3 Billion
Renminbi Yuan