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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. When is China's National Day?
October 1st
4
scare away the evil spirits
Nihao! Zenme y
2. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Most senior ranking attendee
cash
Noodle (Mi
3. What are the five official religions of China?
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
title
Tea (Cha)
Noodle (Mi
4. Who is President of the People's Republic of China?
Tea (Cha)
Hin Jintao
Mandarin Chinese
xu Sh
5. List some Chinese foods.
Black ??
15
Dragon Boat Festival
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
6. What is a very popular food?
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
white rice
Yangzi
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
7. What was the Great Wall originally built?
Beijing
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Pinyin
NE quadrant
8. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
her own last name
Tray of Togetherness
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
East
9. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
East
the lantern celebration
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
10. Name three traditional Chinese musical instruments
Pinyin
Dragon Boat Festival
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
noodles
11. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
2500
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
Han
12. What is the highest mountain in China?
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Mt. Everest
2
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
13. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
learned skill
Most senior ranking attendee
55
Mao Zedong
14. ____________ were not invented in China?
Peach (T
cat
Fortune cookies
Gong Xi
15. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
greeting you
about 275 lbs.
China - Signapore
Bamboo leaves
16. Name a public holiday that China has.
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17. What does Kung Fu mean?
people's money
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Chinese Americans in USA
learned skill
18. How did Kung Fu start?
people's money
communist
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Taiwan - Hong Kong
19. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Han
East
2
20. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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21. What is the name of the tray with eight compartments that is offered to guests?
Mao Zedong
her own last name
white rice
Tray of Togetherness
22. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Hong Kong
Sun Zi ??
people's money
23. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
adult content
Inflate your prices
Han
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
24. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
just over 8
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
title
Face to Face
25. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
Nihao! Zenme y
Show emotion
the Shaolin Monks
2
26. Where does the Giant Panda live?
bring in good luck and prosperity
adult content
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
people's money
27. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
just over 8
Hong boa or Lai see
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Han
28. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Dessert (Small Heart)
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Television
29. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?
Beijing
about 275 lbs.
title
True
30. What is the state religion in China?
just over 8
Atheism
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
31. About how much does a Giant Panda weigh?
about 275 lbs.
Han
Dragon Boat Festival
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
32. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
Taiwan
Atheism
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
33. The Republic of China is located on...
Taiwan
Show emotion
false
1600
34. The top three most population cites in China
Dragon Boat Festival
Signature
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
people's money
35. What is the official language spoken in China?
Nihao! Zenme y
people's money
October 1st
Mandarin Chinese
36. List some Chinese inventions.
15
Shuo W
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
37. What does 'radical' means?
Parts of Chinese characters
Tea (Cha)
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
38. When you hear a person mention my 'Ai Ren' (Ai means love - and Ren means person) - the meaning of the word 'Ai Ren' is:
Beijing
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
wife or husband
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
39. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
15
Nihao! Zenme y
40. What is the money China called?
false
communist
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
41. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Inflate your prices
1600
False
42. What is the longest river in China?
NE quadrant
Television
Red and Yellow
Yangzi
43. What is the national drink for Chinese?
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Tea (Cha)
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
44. What is the capital city of The People's Republic of China?
Taiwan
Han
Beijing
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
45. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Hong Kong
cash
False
46. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Noodle (Mi
Taiwan
Renminbi Yuan
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
47. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
Afghanistan
Mao Zedong
Great Wall of China
about 275 lbs.
48. What is China's currency called?
bring in good luck and prosperity
red
Renminbi Yuan
Fourth
49. What is the official romanization system for the language of China?
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Pinyin
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
learned skill
50. When a Chinese friend says: 'Have you eaten yet?' to you (in Chinese) - what is the meaning?
Taiwan
false
the Spring Festival
greeting you