History quiz about China 4

Tough quiz about the history of China(4).
1. In the One Child policy government employees were expected to put off marriage until which ages?
30 for men, 25 for women
30 for men and women
20 for men and women
25 for men, 20 for women
Beijing, family, people, children
A family in a park

2. The Great Leap Forward was launched by Mao Zedong in which year?
1965
1954
1950
1958
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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Kang Youwei is famous for what in the late Qing dynasty?
reformist
tax commissoner
army general
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

9. Port Arthur was an important treaty port occupied by Japan (1894) and then by Russia (1895), where is it located?
Zhejiang
Liaoning
Tibet
Guangdong
Jilin, Changbai, lake, view
Crater lake, Tian chi on the border of China and North Korea

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

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

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

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

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

15. The Panthay rebellion in 1856 was led by which group?
Christians
Buddhists
Muslims
Mongols
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. The skins of rare white stags were used for what in the Han dynasty?
footwear
medicine
writing substrate
currency
Han dynasty, dance, dancer
China, rustic dancers, eastern han dynasty (25-220). Image by sailko available under a Creative Commons License

17. What proportion of Beijing's cultural relics were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution?
83%
72%
32%
62%

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

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

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