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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?
China - Signapore
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
NE quadrant
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
2. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
Hong Kong
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Signature
3. List some Chinese foods.
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
True
Mandarin Chinese
4. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?
Noodle (Mi
title
Face to Face
people's money
5. Where does the Giant Panda live?
learned skill
you could wipe away your good fortune
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
6. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?
2500
1600
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
7. Name three traditional Chinese musical instruments
Tea (Cha)
55
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
8. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
Inflate your prices
East
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
just over 8
9. What is China's currency called?
Renminbi Yuan
False
xu Sh
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
10. What does renminbi mean?
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11. What is the longest river in China?
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
bring in good luck and prosperity
Yangzi
wife or husband
12. When a Chinese friend says: 'Have you eaten yet?' to you (in Chinese) - what is the meaning?
greeting you
Hin Jintao
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
13. What are dragon dances believed to do?
Yangzi
2500
bring in good luck and prosperity
scare away the evil spirits
14. Where is the Great Wall?
Hong boa or Lai see
2500
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
NE quadrant
15. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
Show emotion
title
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Bamboo leaves
16. ____________ were not invented in China?
Fortune cookies
Black ??
1600
Face to Face
17. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
4
you could wipe away your good fortune
Yangzi
Afghanistan
18. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
you could wipe away your good fortune
China - Signapore
East
Dessert (Small Heart)
19. And the traditional form of characters is used in
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Parts of Chinese characters
white rice
red
20. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
title
about 275 lbs.
noodles
Han
21. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
xu Sh
56 (including Han)
2
True
22. The author of 'The Art of War' is
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Sun Zi ??
Beijing
title
23. List some Chinese inventions.
Most senior ranking attendee
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Emperor and Empress
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
24. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
East
Han
15
25. What was the Great Wall originally built?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
the Spring Festival
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
noodles
26. Chinese New year is also known as what?
Television
the Spring Festival
15
white rice
27. How many year ago was the Great Wall built?
Pinyin
2500
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
about 275 lbs.
28. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
Most senior ranking attendee
1.3 Billion
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
29. With what are Zongzi traditionally wrapped before they are steamed?
NE quadrant
Hin Jintao
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Bamboo leaves
30. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
56 (including Han)
Afghanistan
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
the Shaolin Monks
31. What is the highest mountain in China?
Mt. Everest
Bamboo leaves
cash
xu Sh
32. About how much does a Giant Panda weigh?
multiple
56 (including Han)
about 275 lbs.
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
33. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
Most senior ranking attendee
1600
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Nihao! Zenme y
34. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Nihao! Zenme y
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Signature
35. Some animals that make their homes in China.
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Chinese Americans in USA
Peach (T
Hin Jintao
36. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
China - Signapore
False
Beijing
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
37. What is the national drink for Chinese?
Tea (Cha)
xu Sh
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Television
38. There are often what main courses?
multiple
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
her own last name
Mt. Everest
39. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
wife or husband
Taiwan
Chinese Americans in USA
55
40. How many Chinese characters are there
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
scare away the evil spirits
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
True
41. The top three most population cites in China
Chinese Americans in USA
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Black ??
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
42. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
East
her own last name
Black ??
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
43. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
True
False
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
44. Most people live in the_______of China
East
Peach (T
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
the Shaolin Monks
45. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Hong Kong
Hin Jintao
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
46. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
Taiwan - Hong Kong
just over 8
Beijing
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
47. What are the four great invention of China?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
2
Chinese Americans in USA
48. What are the red envelopes called?
about 275 lbs.
Renminbi Yuan
greeting you
Hong boa or Lai see
49. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
Tea (Cha)
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
50. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
1600
Bamboo leaves
Black ??
yuan - renminbi in Chinese