MCQs of History – Asian History

The teachings of Confucius encouraged people to_______.

Teachings of Confucius are found in a tax called the _____.

Confucianism and Hinduism preach that one should______.

Confucius was mainly concerned with how to______.

In Confucianism, respect for One’s elders is______.

The founder of Taoism was_____.

Reason behind Taoism’s popularity was______.

Many Chinese were attracted to Buddhism because it_____.

The Buddha set out his basic teaching in the______.

The Buddha taught that people suffer in life because of a______.

During the Han dynasty, the Chinese invented______.

Han rulers encouraged education in order to_______.

The first emperor, Shih Huang Ti, followed the philosophy of_____.

An emperor who built much of the Great Wall was_______.

Chinese inventions which increased agricultural production were_____.

The emperor Wu Ti_____.

The “Silk Road” was______.

Candidates for the Chinese civil service needed a through knowledge of_______.

The “Great Wall” was built primarilly_____.

Han Fei Tzu believed in______.

________ is NOT a mythological dynasty.

Zhou of shang’s favourite women is_______.

Before he come of age, King Cheng of Zhou’s regent was_______.

Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu’s army after_______.

________ unified currency in China.

_______ rebelled against Eastern Han.

______ is a Northern Dynasty state.

Emperor________ overthrew his own grandson.

What do Zhao Gao, Zheng Zhong, and Pothinus have in common?

_______ was the predecessor of the Han Dynasty.

The capital of Han Dynasty from 206 BC to 9 AD was_______.

During the Han Dynasty, the great paths established for travelling merchants to sell their merchandise to other part of the World were named_______.

The cause of the rise of Han Dynasty and destruction of its immediate predecessor was_______.

The period of stability during the Han Dynasty was called______.

Under______ a government school system was established.

________ was known as China’s most famous historian during the Han Dynasty.

Cai Lun invented_________ that changed China and later the whole world forever.

A very interesting character of the Han Dynasty who “interrupted” the Han Dynasty from 9 CE to 24 CE was_______.

Emperor______actually lived during the Han Dynasty.

Mao Zedong’s third wife________ rose to a degree of power unmatched by any other female Communist leader and led the infamous ‘Gang of Four’.

__________ dynasty was the first historical dynasty, marked by literacy, bronze and elaborate religious services.

________ ruled China and named herself emperor, without the pretext of a male of the throne.

The Chinese philosopher ‘The Analects’ who believed in a moral hierarchy is credited with writing the ‘Lun yu’, a treatise on submission to proper authority and gentlemanly benevolence to inferiors is______.

_______ was common among women of noble birth in ancient China.

_______dynasty preceded the Qing.

The Yun dynasty (1279-1368) was a foreign-run dynasty. What warrior group ruled China at this time?

The port city and former capital which was occupied by the Japanese from 1937 to 1945 and was the site of a massacre in 1937 is known as_____.

In 1860, the emperor’s Summer Place was burned by an Anglo-French expedition in revenge for Chinese attacks on Europeans headed by______.

_______succeeded Jiang Zemin as chairman of the PRC.

The founding date of the PRC is______.

The CCP was founded in_____.

What was the cause of Liu Shaoqi death?

During the Hundred Flowers campaign, a commonly used phrase was_____.

______was often broken during the Democracy wall.

“The Four Beauties of China” were_____.

Princess Tai Ping was the_____.

Empress Wu Ze Tian was so famous in the history of the Tang Dynasty because______.

Empress Wu’s second husband was______.

The first emperor of China is______.

The very last emperor of China was_____.

Confucius was_____.

The favourite concubine of Emperor Guang Xu was______.

In the early Shang Dynasty,_______was known as the “evil concubine” of King Zhou, the last emperor of Shang.

The Shang Dynasty was overthrow by______.

Deng Xiaoping made a famous tour of southern China in_____thus ending the controversy on how fast China must grow economically.

_______ delivered the recommendation that ended luxury tourism senior officials in the resort of Beidaihe.

_______succeeded Jiang Zeming as Chairman of the Central Military Commission in 2003.

The Fortune Global Forum in 1999 was hosted by_____.

The member of the Gang of Four who committed suicide in 1991 was_____.

The yearly political event in Japan that spurred controversy with China was______.

The female leader who was in charge of the SARS control in 2003 was______.

_______carries the SARS virus.

The two chinese leaders who had simultaneously held the posts of Chairman of the People’s Republic, chairman of the Communist party and Chairman of the Central Military Commission were______.

The major event masterminded by Dang Xiaoping which he was unable to attend as consequence of his death was______.

________supported the Communist Party of China in their struggle.

“The Great Leap Forward’ began in______.

China first acquired nuclear weapons in_____.

The teenager civilians whom Chairman Mao called on to spread the Cultural Revolution through China wee named_____.

The first Premier of the People’s Republic of China, who served from 1949 to 1976, was_____.

The death of______ sparked the revolution that spread across China in 1989.

_______ was named the Chief of the People’s Liberation Army who was sent into Tiananmen Square, Beijing, to deal with the student protests.

The Chinese communist leadr Liu Shaoqi______.

______ term is given to the ideas of Chinese Communism.

Hong Kong again became a part of China in______.

_______ was the capital of China for the most of the early dynasties.

The Forbidden City was built in_______, under the reign of_____.

The emperor______was placed under house arrest by the powerful Empress Dowager Cixi for attempting political reforms in 1898.

The government official sent to Guandong province in the late 1830’s to solve the problem of opium importation was______.

The Qing emperor who abdicated from the throne because he did not dare exceed the length of his grandfather’s reign was_____.

The headbands worn by rebels during the Taiping Rebellions were of________colour.

The most famous military strategist during the Three Kingdoms Period was____.

The beautiful garden_______was looted in 1860, repaired, and totally burned and destroyed forty years later in 1900.

The two greatest poets Li Bai and Tu Fu, wrote their poetry in_______-dynasty.

The Han Empire is split into the Former Han and the later Han. A fifteen year interlude saw the usurping of the throne. What was the name of this usurper?

______ was a long time advisor to Mao Zedong and the Chinese Red Army leader from 1931.

During the Qin dynasty, the books including philosophical treatises and other related literature but the school of philosophy which survived unscathed was____.

In the Ming dynasty, the ennuch who led seven expeditions between the years of 1405 and 1433 AD was_____.

The Manchurian chieftain that first united the Manchu state in 1586 was_____.

Everyone Knows it as ‘Zen Buddhism’. But prior to its arrival in Japan, it was thriving in China as which sect?

The early Buddhists brought with them the scriptures Known as the Tripitaka, or ‘three baskets’.______is not a division of the Tripitaka.

China went to war with_____in 1894.

In 1911, the Republicans overthrew________dynasty.

_______become leader of the newly formed Chinese Republic in 1912.

What was the name of the Nationalist military movement that reunified the country?

Who were the two founding members of the Chinese Communist Party?

In which Chinese city did Guomindang leader Jiang Jieshi carry out his purges on the Chinese Communists?

When did the Chinese Communists declare war on the Japanese?

Which program in Communist Yan’an used between 194 and 44 installed Mao doctrine into all his followers?

On which date was the People’s Republic of China officially announced (although not recognised by all)?

What year was the Sino-French treaty that led to official French control of Annam (modern day Vietnam), which had become a French protectorate in 183?

What river did UN forces approach in 1950, causing China to attack and drive them South?

Who proclaimed himself Heavenly King and originated the devastating Taiping Rebellion (1850-64) that wracked China?

A bit tougher… The treaty of 821 between China and Tibet was given what allegorical name?

Let’s get obscure; what was the name of the seventh century Syrian who was the first Nestorian missionary to China?

Also Know as Amen this late second-century politician, warrior and poet is most famous for his conquest of the Three Kingdoms period. He was Prime Minister to a late Eastern Han emperor and first Kings of the Wei dynasty. Who?

What Chinese Communist Party leader and educator founded (when still a student) the magazine ‘New Youth,’ which stressed modernization and eschewing of Confucianism, in 1915?

What eight-century Chinese poet, according to legend, drowned while drunkenly leaning out from his boat in order to embrace the moon’s reflection in the water?

In what city was the Communist Party of China founded?

Here’s an obscurity that’s not strictly Chinese history, to throw off you dedicated Sinophiles. In the novel ‘Tribulations Of a Chinese Gentleman’, a young upper-class Chinese man arranges for his friend Wang, an ex-Taiping, to kill him when he believes he has lost his fortune. What French author wrote this amusing fiction?

The most important factors in developing agriculture in China was?

The amount of land in China that is arable land is approximately?

In China, the development of ethnocentrism was most influenced by?

Which of the following geographic features would have the greatest effect on the lives of the Chinese people?

As a person travels WEST in China, he/she is most likely to find?:

The Best way to discuss the climate of China is to?:

The only answer to northern China’s agricultural problems is?:

The term “China’s Sorrow” refers to?

Confucianism encouraged its followers to_______.

In ancient China, one effect on government of the teachings of Confucius was the high status of?

A goal common to Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism is to______.

Yin and yang represented_____.

According to Confucius, the best government was one which____.

Mencius gave the Chinese People a “safety valve” or way of getting rid of corrupt, evil dynasties. This was called______.

Confucius believed that a good society was one that_____.

Legalism was based on a view of humman natures as____.

Confucius believed the best ruler was______.

Confucious defined the rights and responsibilities of the citizens of imperial China by______.

In traditional Chinese culture, which philosophy had the greatest influence on the development of social order and political organization_________.

Confucianism emphasizes the idea that______.

Unlike Confucianism, Taoism emphasized_____.

Many Chinese were attracted to Buddhism because it_________.

Which of the following traditional Chinese philosophies would be most sympathetic to dictatorial, authoritarian governments_______.

The Chinese attitude towards religion______.

Why did the Chinese honour their ancestors’ spirits_______.

According to Legalism, the way to achieve order was to______.

In Confucian thought, the ruler-subject relationship was modelled after______.

A sincere follower of Confucius would be in most disagreement with which of the following statements______.

Shi Huang Di, the First Emperor, united China by_______.

The Chinese, like many other peoples, have often been considered ethnocentric. They have shown ethnocentric attitudes in the past by______.

In the Three Principles of the People, Sun Yixian [Sun Yat-sen] declared that_______.

Which best accounts for the lack of political unity in China between 1912 and 1937?

The Long March was the journey undertaken by______.

Manchuria was a region of conflict between foreign powers because of______.

Mao Zedong’s goals included all of the following EXCEPT______.

The philosophies of Confucius and Mao Zedong both emphasized_____.

The Chinese Communists were successful in their revolution during the 1930s and 1940s mainly because the Communists_____.

In 1958, China’s Great Leap Forward called for programs designed to_______.

To improve economic conditions during the late 1980s and early 1990s, China adopted policies that______.

In present-day China the major goal of the government is to______.

A major cause of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in June 1989 was the_____.

In china and the former Soviet Union, the Communist governments discouraged organized religion because religious______.

In China during the 1980s government efforts to adapt Western economic ideas resulted in______.

An immediate result of the Cultural Revolution in China was that it_____.

Since the death of Mao Zedong, relations between China and the United States have improved because_______.

Mao launched the Cultural Revolution in order to______.