Power Up: Focus on Chinese History Diagnostic Pretest

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1. What Chinese city hosted the Olympics in 2008? 11. Confucius lived during what seasonally named period answer: Beijing or Peking of Chinese history, which occurred during the Zhou Dynasty? 2. What member of the Qin Dynasty was the first answer: emperor of a unified ? answer: Qin Shi Huang Di or Zhao Zhang 12. What man led pro‐market reforms as the “paramount leader” of China for most of the 1980s, including 3. What man, who developed the Three Principles of the during the Tiananmen Square Protests? People, was a co‐founder of the Kuomintang? answer: Deng Xiaoping answer: Sun Yat‐Sen or Sun Yixian or Sun Zhongshan 13. What Chinese dynasty did the explorer Zheng He 4. What other Asian country presented the “21 Demands” serve? to China during the early 20th century? answer: Ming Dynasty answer: Japan or Nihon‐koku or Nippon‐koku 14. What 19th‐century revolt started by Hong Xiuquan 5. What possibly mythical dynasty preceded the Shang was put down by the “Ever‐Victorious Army?” and is said to be the first Chinese dynasty? answer: Taiping Rebellion or Taiping Uprising or Taiping answer: Xia Dynasty Heavenly Kingdom or Taiping Tien Kuo 6. What campaign with a botanical name was 15. What historian died in 86 BC and wrote the Shiji, or the implemented by Mao Zedong and ostensibly allowed Records of the Grand Historian? intellectuals to criticize Communism? answer: Sima Qian answer: Hundred Flowers Campaign or Baihua yundong 16. What area was made a colony of Great Britain at the 7. What was the final dynasty to rule China? end of the First Opium War, and was transferred back answer: Qing Dynasty or Chʹing Dynasty or Manchu to China in 1997? Dynasty answer: Hong Kong or Xianggang 8. The book Il Milione describes what European travelerʹs 17. The 14th holder of what position, the head of Tibetan visit to the court of Kublai Khan? Buddhism, is currently living in exile? answer: Marco Polo answer: Dalai Lama 9. Xuanzong ordered the death of , one of 18. Which Chinese dynasty shares its name with the Chinaʹs ”four beauties,” after her family played a role largest ethnic group of China? in what rebellion, named after a Turkic warlord, that answer: rivaled the in the middle of the 8th century? 19. The Yangdi Emperor of the Sui Dynasty is credited answer: An Lushan Rebellion (or An‐Shi Rebellion or with creating the “Grand” example of what kind of Tianbao Rebellion) waterway for China?

answer: Grand Canal(s) 10. Members of the Communist Party in China were ordered to carry what text, which contains quotations 20. Francis Xavier and Matteo Ricci were members of what of Mao Zedong? Catholic order, which sent missionaries to China in the answer: The Little Red Book 16th century?

answer: Jesuits or Society of Jesus