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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. With what are Zongzi traditionally wrapped before they are steamed?
Bamboo leaves
Black ??
2500
the lantern celebration
2. How did Kung Fu start?
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Peach (T
with both hands
3. Most people live in the_______of China
East
Face to Face
Parts of Chinese characters
with both hands
4. What are the five official religions of China?
Great Wall of China
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Tray of Togetherness
5. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
Tray of Togetherness
Sun Zi ??
Face to Face
Taiwan
6. What flower represents courage and hope?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
her own last name
Hin Jintao
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
7. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
noodles
Renminbi Yuan
Hong boa or Lai see
Show emotion
8. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
Pinyin
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Shuo W
Great Wall of China
9. What is the capital city of The People's Republic of China?
Red and Yellow
1.3 Billion
NE quadrant
Beijing
10. What does the word yellow imply?
adult content
Gong Xi
Mandarin Chinese
the Shaolin Monks
11. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
Bamboo leaves
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
her own last name
wife or husband
12. The author of 'The Art of War' is
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Sun Zi ??
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
xu Sh
13. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
55
1600
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Emperor and Empress
14. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
cash
China - Signapore
Taiwan
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
15. What was the Great Wall originally built?
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
1.3 Billion
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
16. What is China's currency called?
people's money
1.3 Billion
Renminbi Yuan
Mao Zedong
17. How many Chinese characters are there
scare away the evil spirits
56 (including Han)
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
people's money
18. Who is President of the People's Republic of China?
the lantern celebration
Hin Jintao
Pinyin
Show emotion
19. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
multiple
Hong boa or Lai see
the Spring Festival
Hong Kong
20. What is the state religion in China?
Signature
Atheism
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
21. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
cash
True
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
22. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
people's money
Most senior ranking attendee
Shuo W
Parts of Chinese characters
23. What is the highest mountain in China?
Mt. Everest
Red and Yellow
noodles
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
24. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
with both hands
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
2500
East
25. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
adult content
wife or husband
cat
Shuo W
26. What are dragon dances believed to do?
bring in good luck and prosperity
2500
Great Wall of China
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
27. When a Chinese friend says: 'Have you eaten yet?' to you (in Chinese) - what is the meaning?
Hong Kong
greeting you
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
the Spring Festival
28. Which of these things did not originally come from China
Television
Emperor and Empress
multiple
greeting you
29. Where does the Giant Panda live?
the Spring Festival
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Mt. Everest
scare away the evil spirits
30. A handshake in China often is ...
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
about 275 lbs.
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
limp and brief
31. List some Chinese foods.
Noodle (Mi
scare away the evil spirits
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
1600
32. There are often what main courses?
False
multiple
the Shaolin Monks
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
33. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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34. Chinese New year is also known as what?
wife or husband
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
the Spring Festival
Bamboo leaves
35. What is the national drink for Chinese?
just over 8
Tea (Cha)
Atheism
Taiwan - Hong Kong
36. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
NE quadrant
the Spring Festival
Fourth
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
37. What the three common Chinese greetings?
scare away the evil spirits
15
Nihao! Zenme y
Face to Face
38. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
xu Sh
Hin Jintao
4
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
39. What color is considered lucky?
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
red
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
Mt. Everest
40. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
Mandarin Chinese
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Han
4
41. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
communist
you could wipe away your good fortune
Peach (T
42. 'Dim Sum' means
Hin Jintao
noodles
Mao Zedong
Dessert (Small Heart)
43. Where is the Great Wall?
NE quadrant
you could wipe away your good fortune
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Red and Yellow
44. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Parts of Chinese characters
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
56 (including Han)
45. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
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
Red and Yellow
2
red
46. List some Chinese inventions.
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
people's money
True
47. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
Mao Zedong
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
people's money
you could wipe away your good fortune
48. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
title
East
1600
2
49. The largest ethnic group in China is called
2
Hong Kong
false
Han
50. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
Han
2500
just over 8
Face to Face