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
25 for men and women
20 for men and women
30 for men and women
Beijing, family, people, children
A family in a park

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

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

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

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

6. Which European nation established the first official trading post in China?
Portugal
Spain
Germany
Britain
Macau

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

8. Kang Youwei is famous for what in the late Qing dynasty?
reformist
army general
engineer
tax commissoner
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. The Golden Orchid Society (1644-1949) in southern China was a group of what?
musicians
chess players
women
opera performers
Beijing, Forbidden City, tile, lotus
Ceramic Tile design with lotus and ducks, Forbidden City, Beijing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

17. Port Arthur was an important treaty port occupied by Japan (1894) and then by Russia (1895), where is it located?
Tibet
Xinjiang
Guangdong
Liaoning
Yellow river, river, bridge
Lower reaches of Yellow River (Huanghe)

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

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

20. The Panthay rebellion in 1856 was led by which group?
Muslims
Christians
Buddhists
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
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