Quiz: Background Knowledge About China

Quiz created: 2000-02-12
Page modified: 2013-03-30

Background Knowledge About China

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Background. All of the questions in this quiz reflect background knowledge about China that will be assumed rather than covered in AnRg 137 (Chinese Popular Religion).

If you have much difficulty with this quiz, you may find it difficult to assimilate the readings and discussions in AnRg 137.

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1. Which of the following dynasties is the earliest?

Han Tang Zhou Qing Ming No Answer

2. Which spelling best renders into English the sound spelled "quan" in romanized Chinese?

kwahn kwahng kywen kyan chwahn chywen No Answer

3. Which is furthest south?

Guangzhou Shanghai Beijing Taibei Wuhan No Answer

4. Which "national minority" people lives furthest to the northeast?

Miao Uigur Tibetan Manchurian Yao No Answer

5. The following named religions are practiced in China. Which was practiced earliest?

Islam Nestorian Christianity Buddhism Lamaism
Catholicism Taoism/Daoism No Answer

6. Two quite different systems of spelling are used to represent Mandarin words in Latin letters: Pinyin and Wade-Giles. How is the Wade-Giles syllable hsien spelled in Pinyin?

xian qian shian sian si'an No Answer

7. Which date is closest to the time of Confucius?

8. The Chinese emperor was overthrown and the nation was converted to a republic in what year?

1490 1805 1911 1949 1978 No Answer

9. The island of Taiwan was legally ceded by China to Japan in 1895 but was retroceded to China after Japan's defeat in World War II. Since the establishment of a Communist government on the Chinese mainland, Taiwan has been under the administration of a separate government, which calls itself

the Republic of China
the Republic of Taiwan
the People's Republic of China
the Taiwan Democratic Republic
the Kuomintang
No Answer

10. The governments of Taiwan and China do not formally recognize each other, but each of them officially claims that Taiwan is legally

a province of China
an autonomous territory under the principle of "one country, two systems"
a separate country from China
a part of Japan
No Answer

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