A) Forged by a Taoist priest in a mystical fire B) Fallen from the moon during a lunar eclipse C) Carved by the emperor to commemorate the dynasty D) Left over when the goddess Nüwa mended the heaven
A) To enjoy the pleasures of the red dust B) To find its missing companion in the mortal realm C) To escape the coldness of the heavens D) To seek revenge on a Buddhist monk
A) A Taoist priest and a Buddhist monk B) An imperial scholar and a general C) The goddess Nüwa and her companion D) Two immortal emperors
A) Xue Baochai B) Lin Daiyu C) Jia Baoyu D) Lady Wang
A) The Story of the Stone B) Legend of the Jia Clan C) The Tale of the Red Dust D) Chronicles of the Daguanyuan
A) The Eastern House and the Western House B) The Imperial House and the Noble House C) The Northern House and the Southern House D) The Rongguo House and the Ningguo House
A) In large, adjacent family compounds in the capital B) In a remote mountain monastery C) Inside the imperial palace D) In separate provinces far from the capital
A) That it is set in a fictional future B) That the dynasty is indeterminate C) That it takes place during the Tang dynasty D) That the ruling family is the Jia clan itself
A) To suitably receive a Jia daughter who was made a Royal Consort B) To provide a sanctuary for Buddhist monks C) To host the imperial wedding of Jia Baoyu D) To serve as a military fortress for the clan
A) A lush landscaped garden B) A grand ancestral temple C) A royal training camp D) An underground treasury
A) Their fall from the height of their prestige B) Their sudden rise from poverty to supreme imperial power C) Their constant stagnation despite having wealth D) Their exile to a foreign country followed by a triumphant return
A) Some thirty B) Around one hundred C) Over four hundred D) Nearly ten
A) Over four hundred B) Exactly thirty C) One thousand D) Only a dozen
A) A strict military commander B) A brooding Daoist scholar C) A carefree male heir D) An ambitious imperial minister
A) His sickly and melancholic cousin Lin Daiyu B) A Buddhist monk from the mountains C) His older brother in the Ningguo House D) An actress from the capital
A) Politics and military strategy B) Daoist alchemy and herbal medicine C) Painting and calligraphy D) Music and poetry
A) The Royal Consort B) Xue Baochai C) Skybright D) Lin Daiyu
A) She is rebellious and hates traditional poetry B) She is a cunning servant plotting against the family C) She is sickly, melancholic, and loves music D) Her grace and intelligence exemplify an ideal woman
A) A formal wedding ceremony B) An emotional connection C) Financial stability D) The approval of the imperial court
A) The imperial censorship laws of the dynasty B) The traditional rules of Chinese poetry C) Every conceivable thought and technique in traditional Chinese fiction D) The record for the longest novel ever written
A) Historical figures who never change their moral standing B) Thoroughly human characters who are neither wholly good nor wholly bad C) Flat archetypes representing pure virtues and vices D) Mythological gods and goddesses disguised as humans
A) They change multiple times throughout the novel B) They are written in a secret script C) They use words from dead languages D) Many of them convey meaning
A) Left them in pinyin B) Converted them into French C) Replaced them with English equivalents D) Translated their meanings into Latin
A) Left them in pinyin B) Converted them into French C) Translated their meanings D) Put them into Latin
A) Sapientia B) Aroma and Skybright C) Jia Zheng and Lady Wang D) Baoyu and Daiyu
A) Put them into Latin B) Left them in pinyin C) Translated their meanings into English D) Converted them into French
A) Sapientia B) Skybright C) Jia Zheng D) Aroma
A) Put them into Latin B) Left them in pinyin C) Translated their meanings into English D) Put them into French
A) Nearly 40 B) Exactly 10 C) Over 400 D) Only 2
A) Over 400 B) Exactly 100 C) Less than 20 D) Nearly 40
A) 17th-century B) 18th-century C) 19th-century D) 20th-century
A) Gao E B) Cheng Weiyuan C) Manchu emperors D) Cao Xueqin
A) 1840s B) 1790s C) 1740s D) 1760s
A) 1791 or 1792 B) 1740 or 1741 C) 1800 or 1801 D) 1763 or 1764
A) Forty chapters B) Eighty chapters C) Ninety chapters D) One hundred and twenty chapters
A) Qing studies B) Redology C) Stoneology D) Baihua literature
A) Semi-wenyan style B) Classical Chinese (wenyan) C) Modern English D) Written vernacular (baihua)
A) Classical dialect B) Manchu dialect C) Southern Mandarin D) Beijing Mandarin dialect
A) Manchu governance B) Classical Chinese C) Poetic composition D) The written vernacular
A) They were destroyed by Cao B) They were immediately published in print C) Hand-copied manuscripts began circulating D) They were lost forever
A) 1763 B) 1791 C) 1800 D) 1740
A) About 5 B) About 50 C) About 80 D) About 12
A) The 50th chapter B) The very end of the book C) The 91st chapter D) The 80th chapter
A) Cao Xueqin B) Zhiyanzhai C) Lin Daiyu D) Baochai
A) Jiaxu manuscripts B) Rouge versions C) Redology editions D) Printed editions
A) Gengchen manuscript B) Jiaxu manuscript C) Rouge manuscript D) Jimao manuscript
A) Beijing Normal University B) National Library of China C) Library of Peking University D) Shanghai Museum
A) Gengchen manuscript B) Russian Academy manuscript C) Jimao manuscript D) Jiaxu manuscript
A) Jiaxu manuscript B) Gengchen manuscript C) Jimao manuscript D) Rouge manuscript
A) 1791 B) 2014 C) 1792 D) 2020
A) Zhang Qingshan B) Gao E C) Hu Shih D) Cheng Weiyuan
A) Irene Eber B) Zhang Qingshan C) Zhou Ruchang D) Hu Shih
A) Gao E's B) Hu Shih's C) Zhou Ruchang's D) Cheng Weiyuan's
A) 2020 B) 1791 C) 1792 D) 2014
A) Zhou Ruchang B) Irene Eber C) Hu Shih D) Zhang Qingshan
A) 2014 B) 1921 C) 1791 D) 2020
A) Splendid Phoenix B) Precious Jade C) Blueblack Jade D) Seeking Spring
A) Wonderful Jade B) Precious Jade C) Blueblack Jade D) Precious Hairpin
A) A respiratory ailment B) Paralysis C) Heart disease D) Blindness
A) An Imperial Consort B) A Buddhist nun C) The Fairy Crimson Pearl D) The Deity Shenying
A) Seeking Spring B) Splendid Phoenix C) First Spring D) Precious Hairpin
A) A golden locket B) A luminescent pearl C) A jade ring D) A silver hairpin
A) Rose B) Two-In-One C) Sister Feng D) Adamantina
A) Seeking Spring B) Welcoming Spring C) Treasuring Spring D) Xiang River Clouds
A) Buddhist nun robes B) Mourning widow clothes C) Men's clothes D) Imperial court attire
A) First Spring B) Adamantina C) Rose D) Splendid Phoenix
A) Aunt Xue B) Concubine Zhao C) Lady Jia Min D) Lady Wang
A) Fifty B) Twenty C) Thirteen D) Forty
A) Two-In-One B) Adamantina C) Rose D) Sister Feng
A) Daughter-in-law B) Daughter C) Aunt D) Sister
A) Xue Baochai B) Lin Daiyu C) Wang Xifeng D) Li Wan
A) Welcoming Spring B) Treasuring Spring C) First Spring D) Seeking Spring
A) Granny Liu B) Miaoyu C) Grandmother Jia D) Lady Wangs
A) Supposed to sigh B) Look down upon love C) Seeking Spring D) Precious Jade
A) Wang B) Xue C) Zhao D) Shi
A) Father B) Brother C) Grandfather D) Uncle
A) Buddhist monk B) Taoist priest C) Confucian scholar D) Government tax collector
A) Xifeng B) Min C) Lady Wang D) Xia Jingui
A) Xueyan B) Zijuan C) Zhen Yinglian D) Xia Jingui
A) Xue Pan B) Xia Jingui C) Aunt Xue D) Xifeng
A) Executed by the government B) By suicide C) Poisoned by Xia Jingui D) While giving birth
A) Buddhism B) Christianity C) Taoism D) Confucianism
A) Qingwen B) Hua Xiren C) Xueyan D) Zijuan
A) Xue Pan B) Jia Lian C) Mingyan D) Jiang Yuhan
A) Yuanyang B) Qingwen C) Xueyan D) Ping'er
A) Zijuan B) Qingwen C) Hua Xiren D) Yuanyang
A) Commits suicide B) Marries Jiang Yuhan C) Becomes Jia Lian's concubine D) Becomes a nun
A) Mingyan B) Jiang Yuhan C) Xue Pan D) Zhen Shiyin
A) Qingwen B) Ping'er C) Xueyan D) Zijuan
A) Qingwen B) Ping'er C) Zijuan D) Xueyan
A) Poison B) Stab wounds C) Black magic D) Hired assassins
A) Jia Yucun B) Jia Rong C) Qin Zhong D) Jia Huan
A) Sheyue B) Sister Sha C) Qiutong D) Zhineng
A) Failing his duties B) Adultery C) Embezzlement of clan funds D) Corruption
A) Wang Xifeng B) Li Wan C) Lady You D) Lady Xing
A) Wang Xifeng B) Lady Xing C) Li Wan D) Lady You
A) Zhineng B) Xing Xiuyan C) Xue Baoqin D) Second Sister You
A) Zhineng B) Sister Sha C) Sheyue D) Qiutong
A) Intelligent B) Musk C) Passion D) Sapientia
A) Sheyue B) Sister Sha C) Qiutong D) Second Sister You |