History quiz about China 4

Tough quiz about the history of China(4).
1. Which European nation established the first official trading post in China?
Germany
Portugal
The Netherlands
Spain
Macau

2. The skins of rare white stags were used for what in the Han dynasty?
elixir of immortality
writing substrate
currency
headwear
Han dynasty, dance, dancer
China, rustic dancers, eastern han dynasty (25-220). Image by sailko available under a Creative Commons License

3. A recent day of commemoration has been created on December 13th, which event does it mark?
Tangshan earthquake
Birth of Xi Jinping
Nanjing massacre
Death of Deng Xiaoping
Tiananmen Square, crowd
2004 PRC National Day at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. What a crowd! Image by pfctdayelise available under a Creative Commons License

4. The U.S. General Stilwell had his headquarters during World War II in which city?
Chongqing
Xi'an
Chengdu
Shanghai
Chongqing, building

5. The Golden Orchid Society (1644-1949) in southern China was a group of what?
musicians
women
opera performers
Daoists
Beijing, Forbidden City, tile, lotus
Ceramic Tile design with lotus and ducks, Forbidden City, Beijing

6. Yu the Great was the founder of which dynasty?
Sui
Xia
Shang
Zhou
huangdi, deity
Modern sculpture of two legendary Chinese Emperors

7. What proportion of Beijing's cultural relics were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution?
55%
32%
72%
15%

8. Which foreign leader planned to conquer China in 1404?
Oljei Temur Khan
Tamerlane
Pope Boniface IX
Mahmud Shah Tughluq

9. Xanadu was an important city in which dynasty?
Jin
Song
Tang
Mongol (Yuan)
Inner Mongolia, landscape, view

10. The Mongol dynasty ruled the whole of China for about how long?
89 years
235 years
200 years
20 years
mongolia, skins, bows
Bows and furs of Mongolia. Image by Rob Stallard

11. Kang Youwei is famous for what in the late Qing dynasty?
army general
revolutionary
reformist
engineer
Kang Youwei
Group picture probably taken when Kang Youwei (center) was in the United States in 1907. His second daughter, Kang Tongbi, then a student at Barnard College, is seated on Kang's right. Behind her is Luo Chang, then studying at Oxford University, UK. Image by Unknown available under a Creative Commons License

12. The Han dynasty was broken in two parts by which brief period?
Xin dynasty
Period of disunity
Qin dynasty
Jin dynasty
Han dynasty, watchtower
Ancient carving on a Han dynasty watch tower

13. In the One Child policy government employees were expected to put off marriage until which ages?
20 for men and women
30 for men and women
30 for men, 25 for women
25 for men and women
Beijing, family, people, children
A family in a park

14. Port Arthur was an important treaty port occupied by Japan (1894) and then by Russia (1895), where is it located?
Liaoning
Guangdong
Zhejiang
Tibet
bamboo
A bamboo grove. Image by Manfred Heyde available under a Creative Commons license

15. China's main foreign trade in the 17th and 18th century was with which country?
France
Spain
Netherlands
Britain
spain, boat, galleon, trade, sea

16. Which city in central China was important in the foundation of the Republic of China?
Wuchang
Nanyang
Nanchang
Changsha
university, Wuhan, Hubei

17. In 2CE the population of China was about how many?
185 million
58 million
100 million
35 million

18. The Great Leap Forward was launched by Mao Zedong in which year?
1965
1958
1954
1970
Mao Zedong, statue, PRC
Status of Mao Zedong negotiating with the Guomindang, 1945, with Soong Chingling, Zhang Lan, Huang Yanpei and other party leaders. Copyright © Dreamstime see image license

19. The 1911 revolution and the Japanese invasion of Manchuria had which common initiating factor
railways
famine
taxes
corruption
Jiangsu, PRC, sculpture
Yuhuatai Memorial Park of Revolutionary Martyrs, Nanjing, Jiangsu

20. The Panthay rebellion in 1856 was led by which group?
Tibetans
Christians
Muslims
Daoists
Jiansha river, Yangzi river,  Yunnan
A woman walking her herd of cows, Jinsha jiang, Yunnan, 2011. Image by timquijano available under a Creative Commons License
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