History quiz about China 4

Tough quiz about the history of China(4).
1. China's main foreign trade in the 17th and 18th century was with which country?
Portugal
Spain
France
India
spain, boat, galleon, trade, sea

2. What proportion of Beijing's cultural relics were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution?
55%
83%
15%
72%

3. Which foreign leader planned to conquer China in 1404?
Oljei Temur Khan
Pope Boniface IX
Tamerlane
King Philip the Bold

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

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

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

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

8. A recent day of commemoration has been created on December 13th, which event does it mark?
Death of Deng Xiaoping
Nanjing massacre
Birth of Xi Jinping
Tangshan earthquake
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

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

10. In 2CE the population of China was about how many?
58 million
100 million
2 million
20 million

11. The Great Leap Forward was launched by Mao Zedong in which year?
1950
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

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

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

14. The U.S. General Stilwell had his headquarters during World War II in which city?
Chengdu
Chongqing
Shanghai
Beijing
Chongqing, building

15. The Panthay rebellion in 1856 was led by which group?
Daoists
Christians
Mongols
Muslims
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

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

17. Which European nation established the first official trading post in China?
Spain
Britain
The Netherlands
Portugal
Macau

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

19. Kang Youwei is famous for what in the late Qing dynasty?
reformist
revolutionary
engineer
senior eunuch
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

20. Port Arthur was an important treaty port occupied by Japan (1894) and then by Russia (1895), where is it located?
Tibet
Xinjiang
Guangdong
Liaoning
Hainan, monkey
Macaque monkeys on Nanwan Monkey Island off Hainan main island
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