Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Choose the best
answer.
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Which of these ideas did
Confucius stress?
a. | social
equality | c. | good
behavior | b. | nonviolent disobedience | d. | independence |
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What was one effect of
China's geographic isolation?
a. | the mountains called the
Himalayas | b. | the growth of trade | c. | the varied climate | d. | a unique
civilization |
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What was the Mandate of
Heaven?
a. | the divine right to rule as
king | c. | the powers claimed by
nobles | b. | holy texts of ancient China | d. | the first written laws in China |
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Which of these regions of China
has fertile plains?
a. | eastern
China | c. | western
China | b. | the steppes | d. | the Gobi |
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What was the purpose of the
wall that Shi Huangdi ordered to be built?
a. | to unite the conquered
kingdoms | b. | to force his enemies to do hard labor | c. | to turn the capital city of Xianyang into a
fortress | d. | to defend China from northern
invaders |
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What is the Huang He, or Yellow
River, also called?
a. | the
Yangtze | c. | Yu the
Great | b. | China's Sorrow | d. | the Long River |
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Which of these lists shows
Chinese dynasties in the correct time order?
a. | Shang, Han,
Qin | c. | Zhou, Han,
Qin | b. | Qin, Shang, Zhou | d. | Shang, Zhou, Han |
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Choose the term that best
completes the sentence.
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In the system known as
____, peasants worked the nobles'
lands, and the nobles served the king.
a. | standardization | d. | Daoism | b. | Warring States | e. | dialects | c. | feudalism |
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The ideas of
____ challenged people to look beyond
their everyday concerns and develop spiritual understanding.
a. | standardization | d. | Daoism | b. | Warring States | e. | dialects | c. | feudalism |
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A monetary system that all
states share is one form of ____
designed to unite different groups.
a. | standardization | d. | Daoism | b. | Warring States | e. | dialects | c. | feudalism |
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The decline of the Zhou dynasty
is sometimes called the ____
period.
a. | standardization | d. | Daoism | b. | Warring States | e. | dialects | c. | feudalism |
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Groups that live separately
from one another often develop varieties of one language known as ____.
a. | standardization | d. | Daoism | b. | Warring States | e. | dialects | c. | feudalism |
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Read the statement. Then
choose the best answer.
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During the Han dynasty,
China was set on its course of becoming an imperial bureaucratic state. This empire lasted more than 2,000
years.
What does the word imperial mean in the sentence above?
a. | powerful | c. | unified | b. | of an empire | d. | closed |
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