A) 8 B) 12 C) 5 D) 10
A) Tables B) Treatises C) Ranked Biographies D) Hereditary Houses
A) Historical evolution of rituals, music, and astronomy B) Biographies of famous assassins C) Genealogical charts of royalty D) Chronicle accounts of the Zhou dynasty
A) Ranked Biographies B) Tables C) Hereditary Houses D) Treatises
A) 50% B) 42% C) 10% D) 25%
A) Xia Wuju B) Liu Bang C) Laozi D) Xiang Yu
A) In the Basic Annals of the Han emperors B) In the biography of Empress Dowager Lu C) In the Treatise on financial administration D) In the biography of Xiang Yu
A) Exclusive use of monosyllabic words B) Strict adherence to pre-Qin classical grammar C) Proliferation of disyllabic compounds D) Total avoidance of grammatical innovations
A) Confucian Analects B) Book of Songs C) Classic of History D) Zuozhuan
A) To list every official of the Han dynasty B) To standardize the music and pitch pipes C) Chronologies are difficult to follow when different genealogical lines exist simultaneously D) To preserve the divine rights of the emperors
A) They contain biographies B) They focus on astronomical measurements C) They describe the cruelty of Empress Dowager Lu exclusively D) They are strictly genealogical tables
A) Financial administration B) Pitch pipes and music C) Rivers and waterways D) The military strategies of the Qin dynasty
A) By prioritizing Confucian doctrine above all else B) By listing only the dates of birth and death C) Using anecdotes to depict morals and character D) Using purely dry, factual chronologies
A) She refused to allow any cruelty during her reign B) Her rule brought peace and prosperity C) She was the primary founder of the Han dynasty D) She was the most virtuous woman in Chinese history
A) It is written in modern vernacular Chinese B) It omits all stories about failed claimants to the throne C) It explicitly promotes the divine rights of emperors D) It is more liberal and objective
A) Three B) Six C) Nine D) Two
A) Kōzan-ji temple B) Ishiyama-dera temple C) Tōyō Bunko museum D) Dunhuang library
A) Nine B) Three C) Two D) Six
A) 750,000 B) 250,000 C) 526,500 D) 1,000,000
A) Bamboo slips B) Paper C) Silk D) Stone tablets
A) Around 50 B) Around 100 C) Around 10 D) Around 30
A) 20–50 pounds B) 88–132 pounds C) 150–200 pounds D) 5–10 pounds
A) Three B) Twelve C) Seven D) Five
A) 7 B) 5 C) 30 D) 12
A) Modern biographical essays B) Epic poetry C) Religious scripture D) Court chronicle tradition
A) Sima Tan B) Chu Shaosun C) Sima Qian D) Gu Jiegang
A) Tang B) Three Kingdoms C) Eastern Han D) Western Han
A) Taishigongshu B) Shiji C) Taishigongji D) Taishigongzhuan
A) Chu Shaosun B) Pei Yin C) Sima Qian D) Sima Tan
A) Western historiographical conventions B) Continuous sweeping narratives C) The Three Kingdoms records D) All subsequent dynastic histories
A) Chang'an B) Beijing C) Nanjing D) Luoyang
A) Three-volume edition B) One hundred and thirty volume edition C) Ten-volume edition D) Twenty-four volume edition
A) Pei Yin B) Chu Shaosun C) Gu Jiegang D) Sima Tan
A) The Northern and Southern Dynasties collection B) The Three Kingdoms records C) Twenty-Four Histories D) The Han Imperial Archives
A) Emperor B) Grand Historian C) Scholar of the Northern Dynasties D) Imperial scribe of the Three Kingdoms
A) The Art of War B) Book of Songs C) The Analects D) Li Sao
A) Invents a likely story B) Leaves a blank C) Consults the Emperor D) Includes all versions
A) Chapter 1 B) Chapter 121 C) Chapter 15 D) Chapter 62
A) Han B) Quanrong C) Mongols D) Xiongnu
A) Hereditary historians B) Tax collectors C) Royal bodyguards D) Military generals
A) Chapter 19 B) Chapter 13 C) Chapter 64 D) Chapter 121
A) Until the fall of the Han B) Until the Warring States period C) Until the Gonghe regency D) Until the death of King Li
A) Doubting Antiquity School B) Anyang Archaeological Society C) The Imperial Historian Guild D) The Bamboo Annals Committee
A) He invented the accounts himself B) He lacked any historical evidence C) He had fairly reliable materials D) He relied solely on oral tradition
A) Five B) Twenty-three C) Thirty D) Ten
A) 280 AD B) 1600 BC C) 1954 AD D) Third century BC
A) Mythical beasts B) Foreign invaders C) Ancient philosophers D) Local deities
A) Deep historical-mindedness B) Reliance on supernatural deities C) Dependence on oral storytelling D) Lack of interest in the past
A) Ban Gu B) Liu Zhiji C) Sima Qian D) Yang Yun
A) 100 B) 130 C) 80 D) 15
A) Chu Shaosun B) Liu Zhiji C) Ban Biao D) Ban Gu
A) Hanshu B) Shiji jijie C) Letter to Ren An D) Sanjia zhu
A) Hanshu B) Shiji jijie C) Sanjia zhu D) Zhenghe
A) 1921 B) 1930 C) 1982 D) 1959 |