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Power Up: Focus on Chinese History Diagnostic Pretest All content © 2016 by National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC. This study guide may be duplicated for use by players and coaches affiliated with the school that purchased it. It may not be distributed to people unaffiliated with that school. 1. What Chinese city hosted the Olympics in 2008? answer: ______________________________________ 2. What member of the Qin Dynasty was the first emperor of a unified China? answer: ______________________________________ 3. What man, who developed the Three Principles of the People, was a co‐founder of the Kuomintang? answer: ______________________________________ 4. What other Asian country presented the “21 Demands” to China during the early 20th century? answer: ______________________________________ 5. What possibly mythical dynasty preceded the Shang and is said to be the first Chinese dynasty? answer: ______________________________________ 6. What campaign with a botanical name was implemented by Mao Zedong and ostensibly allowed intellectuals to criticize Communism? answer: ______________________________________ 7. What was the final dynasty to rule China? ______________________________________ answer: ______________________________________ 12. What man led pro‐market reforms as the “paramount leader” of China for most of the 1980s, including during the Tiananmen Square Protests? answer: ______________________________________ 13. What Chinese dynasty did the explorer Zheng He serve? answer: ______________________________________ 14. What 19th‐century revolt started by Hong Xiuquan was put down by the “Ever‐Victorious Army?” answer: ______________________________________ 15. What historian died in 86 BC and wrote the Shiji, or the Records of the Grand Historian? answer: ______________________________________ 16. What area was made a colony of Great Britain at the end of the First Opium War, and was transferred back to China in 1997? answer: ______________________________________ The book Il Milione describes what European travelerʹs visit to the court of Kublai Khan? 17. The 14th holder of what position, the head of Tibetan Buddhism, is currently living in exile? answer: ______________________________________ 9. answer: 8. 11. Confucius lived during what seasonally named period of Chinese history, which occurred during the Zhou Dynasty? answer: ______________________________________ Xuanzong ordered the death of Yang Guifei, one of Chinaʹs ”four beauties,” after her family played a role in what rebellion, named after a Turkic warlord, that rivaled the Tang Dynasty in the middle of the 8th century? answer: ______________________________________ 10. Members of the Communist Party in China were ordered to carry what text, which contains quotations of Mao Zedong? answer: ______________________________________ 18. Which Chinese dynasty shares its name with the largest ethnic group of China? answer: ______________________________________ 19. The Yangdi Emperor of the Sui Dynasty is credited with creating the “Grand” example of what kind of waterway for China? answer: ______________________________________ 20. Francis Xavier and Matteo Ricci were members of what Catholic order, which sent missionaries to China in the 16th century? answer: ______________________________________
