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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. ____________ were not invented in China?
Fortune cookies
Fourth
xu Sh
Bamboo leaves
2. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
cash
Dessert (Small Heart)
Noodle (Mi
East
3. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
Shuo W
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Show emotion
Television
4. What is a very popular food?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
white rice
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
with both hands
5. What are lion dances believed to do?
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Inflate your prices
scare away the evil spirits
1.3 Billion
6. List some Chinese foods.
Inflate your prices
learned skill
Renminbi Yuan
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
7. 'Dim Sum' means
Dessert (Small Heart)
1600
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
xu Sh
8. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
Han
Bamboo leaves
Inflate your prices
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
9. The Republic of China is located on...
Black ??
Atheism
Taiwan
Mandarin Chinese
10. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
you could wipe away your good fortune
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
1600
white rice
11. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
Peach (T
Fourth
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
NE quadrant
12. About how much does a Giant Panda weigh?
cat
multiple
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
about 275 lbs.
13. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
55
Great Wall of China
Han
Atheism
14. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in 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
the Spring Festival
Inflate your prices
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
15. What does 'radical' means?
Fourth
Parts of Chinese characters
multiple
the lantern celebration
16. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
Inflate your prices
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
2500
Most senior ranking attendee
17. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
bring in good luck and prosperity
October 1st
Hong Kong
Mao Zedong
18. What does the word yellow imply?
Afghanistan
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Inflate your prices
adult content
19. What is China's currency called?
multiple
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Renminbi Yuan
Mao Zedong
20. The largest ethnic group in China is called
Han
True
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
21. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
Black ??
Great Wall of China
just over 8
you could wipe away your good fortune
22. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
55
False
East
cash
23. And the traditional form of characters is used in
Fourth
adult content
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Peach (T
24. List some Chinese inventions.
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
China - Signapore
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Parts of Chinese characters
25. What is the highest mountain in China?
Mao Zedong
NE quadrant
Han
Mt. Everest
26. What is the capital city of The People's Republic of China?
you could wipe away your good fortune
October 1st
Beijing
4
27. What color is considered lucky?
red
Face to Face
Gong Xi
Mt. Everest
28. How did Kung Fu start?
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
bring in good luck and prosperity
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Show emotion
29. The population in Mainland China is
1.3 Billion
October 1st
Shuo W
Face to Face
30. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
1600
communist
Black ??
2
31. Name a public holiday that China has.
32. What are the five official religions of China?
Chinese Americans in USA
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
the Spring Festival
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
33. The top three most population cites in China
learned skill
NE quadrant
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
34. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
the Shaolin Monks
Great Wall of China
Chinese Americans in USA
True
35. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Parts of Chinese characters
limp and brief
adult content
36. When a Chinese friend says: 'Have you eaten yet?' to you (in Chinese) - what is the meaning?
Parts of Chinese characters
East
false
greeting you
37. What are dragon dances believed to do?
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
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
bring in good luck and prosperity
38. What the three common Chinese greetings?
Nihao! Zenme y
Mao Zedong
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
39. What was the Great Wall originally built?
Emperor and Empress
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Face to Face
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
40. What is the money China called?
2
Hong boa or Lai see
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
41. How many Chinese characters are there
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Tray of Togetherness
Shuo W
Black ??
42. What does Kung Fu mean?
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
learned skill
greeting you
Mandarin Chinese
43. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
Parts of Chinese characters
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
scare away the evil spirits
just over 8
44. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
scare away the evil spirits
55
Tea (Cha)
Mao Zedong
45. A handshake in China often is ...
1600
limp and brief
with both hands
Noodle (Mi
46. When you hear a person mention my 'Ai Ren' (Ai means love - and Ren means person) - the meaning of the word 'Ai Ren' is:
wife or husband
False
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
1.3 Billion
47. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
Chinese Americans in USA
the Shaolin Monks
Red and Yellow
Dragon Boat Festival
48. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
Hong boa or Lai see
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Most senior ranking attendee
False
49. What are the four treasures of the study (w
Hin Jintao
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
her own last name
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
50. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
Tea (Cha)
East
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
cash