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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 are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
NE quadrant
about 275 lbs.
2. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
you could wipe away your good fortune
Show emotion
cat
Most senior ranking attendee
3. What is the longest river in China?
Yangzi
scare away the evil spirits
1.3 Billion
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
4. How many ethnic groups are there in China?
Beijing
Hong Kong
56 (including Han)
Taiwan - Hong Kong
5. What is China's currency called?
cat
Show emotion
Renminbi Yuan
Signature
6. The Republic of China is located on...
Tea (Cha)
Taiwan
Hin Jintao
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
7. What does renminbi mean?
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8. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Bamboo leaves
2
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
9. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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10. China shares a border with
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
the lantern celebration
False
Afghanistan
11. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
the Spring Festival
Mao Zedong
Han
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
12. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
with both hands
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
the lantern celebration
13. How did Kung Fu start?
4
Great Wall of China
Taiwan - Hong Kong
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
14. What economy does China have?
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
communist
15. What does 'radical' means?
55
Parts of Chinese characters
Sun Zi ??
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
16. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
55
False
the Shaolin Monks
Yangzi
17. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
4
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Dragon Boat Festival
you could wipe away your good fortune
18. What are the four great invention of China?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
55
15
communist
19. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
Red and Yellow
the Shaolin Monks
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Dragon Boat Festival
20. It is acceptable to answer phone calls in meetings.
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
limp and brief
True
Mao Zedong
21. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
Bamboo leaves
Peach (T
East
with both hands
22. What are lion dances believed to do?
title
scare away the evil spirits
Television
cat
23. What the three common Chinese greetings?
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Signature
Red and Yellow
Nihao! Zenme y
24. What is the state religion in China?
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Atheism
red
Great Wall of China
25. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
Emperor and Empress
the lantern celebration
Most senior ranking attendee
Mao Zedong
26. What is 'Hong boa' or 'Lai see'?
Dessert (Small Heart)
you could wipe away your good fortune
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
NE quadrant
27. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
Renminbi Yuan
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Bamboo leaves
Hin Jintao
28. What is the money China called?
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
you could wipe away your good fortune
limp and brief
NE quadrant
29. Where does the Giant Panda live?
Peach (T
with both hands
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
just over 8
30. How should one receive business cards?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Red and Yellow
limp and brief
with both hands
31. What does Kung Fu mean?
learned skill
Bamboo leaves
red
Atheism
32. Some animals that make their homes in China.
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Fortune cookies
greeting you
4
33. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Emperor and Empress
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
34. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
Peach (T
the Shaolin Monks
cash
October 1st
35. What is the official language spoken in China?
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Afghanistan
Mandarin Chinese
Renminbi Yuan
36. What is the national drink for Chinese?
learned skill
Tea (Cha)
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Black ??
37. Name three traditional Chinese musical instruments
Show emotion
Mandarin Chinese
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Dragon Boat Festival
38. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
false
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
2
Tea (Cha)
39. The top three most population cites in China
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Show emotion
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
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 are the four treasures of the study (w
scare away the evil spirits
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
xu Sh
East
41. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
Tray of Togetherness
Beijing
Han
Black ??
42. Who is President of the People's Republic of China?
Bamboo leaves
Hin Jintao
learned skill
Show emotion
43. What is a very popular food?
white rice
Noodle (Mi
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
China - Signapore
44. What is the capital city of The People's Republic of China?
xu Sh
Beijing
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
45. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
Gong Xi
China - Signapore
her own last name
Signature
46. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
greeting you
just over 8
True
Hong Kong
47. Where is the Great Wall?
Bamboo leaves
NE quadrant
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
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
48. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
Beijing
xu Sh
Dragon Boat Festival
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
49. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
Afghanistan
Signature
Bamboo leaves
learned skill
50. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Fourth
China - Signapore
Shuo W