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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 the official language spoken in China?
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
her own last name
Mandarin Chinese
2. What economy does China have?
Mt. Everest
Sun Zi ??
communist
title
3. What is the name of the tray with eight compartments that is offered to guests?
False
Chinese Americans in USA
Great Wall of China
Tray of Togetherness
4. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Hong Kong
people's money
Peach (T
5. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
Renminbi Yuan
Tray of Togetherness
Han
1.3 Billion
6. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
Most senior ranking attendee
Peach (T
Mao Zedong
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
7. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
Mandarin Chinese
Hong boa or Lai see
cat
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
8. China shares a border with
about 275 lbs.
Television
Afghanistan
Hong Kong
9. The top three most population cites in China
Hin Jintao
learned skill
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
10. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
Red and Yellow
Han
Most senior ranking attendee
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
11. Name three traditional Chinese musical instruments
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
her own last name
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
12. About how much does a Giant Panda weigh?
Signature
about 275 lbs.
15
Black ??
13. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
noodles
Television
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
multiple
14. How did Kung Fu start?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Dragon Boat Festival
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
15. Where was the fortune cookie original from?
Chinese Americans in USA
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
red
False
16. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Han
Beijing
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
17. What is the capital city of The People's Republic of China?
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
East
multiple
Beijing
18. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
Mao Zedong
Parts of Chinese characters
Inflate your prices
with both hands
19. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
NE quadrant
just over 8
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
you could wipe away your good fortune
20. What does the word yellow imply?
the Shaolin Monks
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Yangzi
adult content
21. What is the money China called?
people's money
title
Black ??
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
22. What are the four great invention of China?
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Emperor and Empress
NE quadrant
23. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
Great Wall of China
the Shaolin Monks
false
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
24. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Inflate your prices
2500
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
25. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
Taiwan
Nihao! Zenme y
wife or husband
Signature
26. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
Inflate your prices
Show emotion
2
Most senior ranking attendee
27. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Taiwan
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
True
28. The author of 'The Art of War' is
red
East
Sun Zi ??
True
29. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
Sun Zi ??
Hong Kong
Great Wall of China
Show emotion
30. How should one receive business cards?
multiple
title
with both hands
Tea (Cha)
31. What color is considered lucky?
red
Tea (Cha)
adult content
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
32. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
Black ??
Bamboo leaves
Dragon Boat Festival
Han
33. What does 'radical' means?
Television
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Parts of Chinese characters
Tea (Cha)
34. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
the lantern celebration
2
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
35. When is China's National Day?
Chinese Americans in USA
Dragon Boat Festival
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
October 1st
36. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
2500
Inflate your prices
China - Signapore
True
37. What are the ancient rulers of China called?
red
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Emperor and Empress
38. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
Shuo W
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
her own last name
NE quadrant
39. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Yangzi
learned skill
just over 8
40. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
cash
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
1.3 Billion
15
41. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
Dessert (Small Heart)
learned skill
red
xu Sh
42. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?
her own last name
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
43. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
the Shaolin Monks
China - Signapore
4
44. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Tea (Cha)
NE quadrant
people's money
45. What are dragon dances believed to do?
Han
Noodle (Mi
bring in good luck and prosperity
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
46. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
False
cat
noodles
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
47. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
Most senior ranking attendee
the Shaolin Monks
Han
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
48. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
red
Taiwan
2
Face to Face
49. How many ethnic groups are there in China?
xu Sh
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
56 (including Han)
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
50. Where does the Giant Panda live?
Parts of Chinese characters
Dessert (Small Heart)
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Red and Yellow