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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. How did Kung Fu start?
Han
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
2. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
learned skill
Hin Jintao
Face to Face
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
3. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Taiwan
Show emotion
Hin Jintao
4. And the traditional form of characters is used in
noodles
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Chinese Americans in USA
communist
5. What does renminbi mean?
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6. ____________ were not invented in China?
Fortune cookies
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Hong Kong
55
7. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
15
Yangzi
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
her own last name
8. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?
Noodle (Mi
2
you could wipe away your good fortune
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
9. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
multiple
her own last name
Tray of Togetherness
bring in good luck and prosperity
10. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Mandarin Chinese
True
Black ??
11. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
Great Wall of China
the Spring Festival
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Red and Yellow
12. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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13. What does Kung Fu mean?
Hong boa or Lai see
Afghanistan
Face to Face
learned skill
14. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
you could wipe away your good fortune
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
2
Most senior ranking attendee
15. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
Hong Kong
Shuo W
learned skill
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
16. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
limp and brief
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Noodle (Mi
Signature
17. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
East
Black ??
noodles
scare away the evil spirits
18. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
people's money
with both hands
Parts of Chinese characters
you could wipe away your good fortune
19. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
Signature
55
false
Gong Xi
20. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
title
Mao Zedong
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
21. Who is President of the People's Republic of China?
Nihao! Zenme y
Show emotion
Hin Jintao
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
22. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
Inflate your prices
xu Sh
limp and brief
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
23. It is acceptable to answer phone calls in meetings.
Fortune cookies
Han
Taiwan - Hong Kong
True
24. Name three traditional Chinese musical instruments
Mandarin Chinese
noodles
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Bamboo leaves
25. The author of 'The Art of War' is
October 1st
Noodle (Mi
Sun Zi ??
Emperor and Empress
26. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
Mao Zedong
cash
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
27. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
Pinyin
the lantern celebration
Mao Zedong
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
28. The population in Mainland China is
1.3 Billion
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
white rice
communist
29. What was the Great Wall originally built?
the Shaolin Monks
Hong Kong
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Hin Jintao
30. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
Shuo W
adult content
her own last name
1.3 Billion
31. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
Beijing
the Spring Festival
Shuo W
xu Sh
32. What is 'Hong boa' or 'Lai see'?
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Gong Xi
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
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
33. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
the Shaolin Monks
Nihao! Zenme y
Taiwan
2
34. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
Great Wall of China
adult content
Sun Zi ??
Mao Zedong
35. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Fortune cookies
the Spring Festival
55
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
36. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
noodles
greeting you
Nihao! Zenme y
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
37. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
bring in good luck and prosperity
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Renminbi Yuan
China - Signapore
38. How many Chinese characters are there
Hin Jintao
multiple
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Television
39. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
Mandarin Chinese
East
2
Face to Face
40. How many ethnic groups are there in China?
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Taiwan
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
56 (including Han)
41. Aggressive negotiation tactics are recommended.
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
China - Signapore
Hong Kong
false
42. List some Chinese foods.
Sun Zi ??
56 (including Han)
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Han
43. What is the longest river in China?
Taiwan
2500
Yangzi
with both hands
44. Most people live in the_______of China
Mao Zedong
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Show emotion
East
45. There are often what main courses?
adult content
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
multiple
October 1st
46. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
learned skill
communist
NE quadrant
47. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
Chinese Americans in USA
Han
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
55
48. The Republic of China is located on...
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Black ??
Taiwan
Noodle (Mi
49. What are the five official religions of China?
just over 8
scare away the evil spirits
Afghanistan
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
50. What does the word yellow imply?
noodles
adult content
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
communist