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  • 1. What material were statuettes known for in China for a long time before monumental stone statuary?
A) Marble
B) Terracotta
C) Bronze
D) Jade
  • 2. In what year were the first monumental stone sculptures created in China?
A) 202 BCE
B) 221 BCE
C) 117 BCE
D) 9 AD
  • 3. Who was Huo Qubing?
A) The First Emperor of China
B) A famous traveler to the western regions
C) A general of Emperor Han Wudi
D) A Buddhist monk
  • 4. Against which group did Huo Qubing go to the western regions to fight?
A) Xiongnu
B) Tibetans
C) Manchus
D) Mongols
  • 5. According to literary sources, what animal were the two alleged monumental statues set up on top of the tomb of the First Emperor Qin Shihuang?
A) Lion
B) Dragon
C) Tiger
D) Qilin
  • 6. What is the most famous statue from the Mausoleum of Huo Qubing?
A) A lion guarding a gateway
B) A seated Buddha
C) A horse trampling a Xiongnu warrior
D) A qilin protecting a tomb
  • 7. How many stone sculptures are at the Mausoleum of Huo Qubing in total, including the most famous one?
A) 16
B) 15
C) 20
D) 2
  • 8. How do the other 15 sculptures at Huo Qubing's mausoleum compare to the 'Horse trampling a Xiongnu'?
A) More detailed
B) Larger in size
C) Less naturalistic
D) Made of bronze
  • 9. What do the 15 lesser-known sculptures at Huo Qubing's mausoleum tend to follow?
A) The natural shape of the stone
B) Strict geometric patterns
C) Symmetrical architectural grids
D) Human anatomical charts
  • 10. How do the details of the figures emerge in the 15 sculptures at Huo Qubing's mausoleum?
A) In high relief
B) Through separate attachments
C) In low relief
D) Through painting
  • 11. Who was the famous traveler to the western regions who had rudimentary stone statues of lions placed at his mausoleum?
A) Zhang Qian
B) Huo Qubing
C) Han Wudi
D) Siddhārtha Gautama
E) Qin Shihuang
  • 12. When did Zhang Qian live and travel?
A) 268 BCE
B) -114 BCE
C) 2nd century CE
D) 117 BCE
  • 13. What animal were the rudimentary stone statues placed at Zhang Qian's mausoleum?
A) Lions
B) Qilin
C) Horses
D) Tigers
  • 14. What influenced the precursors of Chinese monumental stone sculpture?
A) Inventions from southern China
B) Maritime trade with Rome
C) Internal religious reforms
D) Forays deep into Central Asia
  • 15. Where were ancient stone statues recently discovered that were probably influential to Chinese sculpture?
A) Altay and northern Xinjiang
B) Central Tibet
C) Eastern coastal plains
D) Southern India and Sri Lanka
  • 16. What is the historical geographic path of the West-East diffusion of stone sculpture technology?
A) Egypt and Babylonia to Greece, then India, and finally China
B) Greece to Egypt, then China, and finally India
C) China to India, then Greece, and finally Egypt
D) India to China, then Babylonia, and finally Greece
  • 17. Which Indian pillars mark a step in the diffusion of stone sculpture technology before it reached China?
A) Pillars of Trajan
B) Pillars of Darius
C) Pillars of Ashoka
D) Pillars of Hercules
  • 18. During which centuries did the Pillars of Ashoka date?
A) 500–400 BCE
B) 268–232 BCE
C) 117–114 BCE
D) 2nd century CE
  • 19. Around which century did stone sculpture technology reach China?
A) 1st century CE
B) 2nd century BCE
C) 2nd century CE
D) 1st century BCE
  • 20. Who is Siddhārtha Gautama also commonly known as?
A) Qin Shihuang
B) Huo Qubing
C) Zhang Qian
D) Buddha
  • 21. Besides representations of Buddha, what sculptural pieces are included in Chinese Buddhist sculpture?
A) Bodhisattvas, monks, and various deities
B) Taoist philosophers and poets
C) Emperors, generals, and merchants
D) Qilin, unicorns, and lions
  • 22. When were Buddhist teachings introduced to China?
A) During the Ming dynasty
B) After the 10th century CE
C) As early as the 2nd century BCE
D) In the 2nd century CE
  • 23. During which Chinese dynasty were Buddhist teachings introduced?
A) Ming dynasty
B) Han dynasty
C) Qing dynasty
D) Qin dynasty
  • 24. When did Buddhism become more established in China?
A) During the 2nd century BCE
B) During the 2nd century CE
C) During the prehistoric era
D) During the 117 BCE era
  • 25. What were the earliest Buddhist representations in China instead of the human form?
A) Jade disks and bronze mirrors
B) Large bronze bells and gongs
C) An empty seat, footprint, tree or stupa
D) Stone horses and qilin
  • 26. What architectural form did the stupa eventually inspire the creation of in China?
A) Palaces
B) Pagodas
C) City walls
D) Cave temples
  • 27. Where did Buddhist sculpture begin in China?
A) Open-air mausoleums
B) Imperial palaces
C) Wooden monasteries
D) Rock-cut cave temples
  • 28. How are carvings mostly executed in rock-cut cave temples?
A) In relief
B) As painted scrolls
C) In freestanding round statues
D) As clay statuettes
  • 29. What do carvings in rock-cut cave temples envelop?
A) City gates and bridges
B) Chambers and complexes
C) Imperial tombs and altars
D) Marketplaces and fortresses
  • 30. What do the carvings in rock-cut cave temples illustrate?
A) The travels of Zhang Qian to Central Asia
B) The beliefs associated with the Buddha's teachings
C) The military conquests of Han Wudi
D) The lineage of the First Emperor Qin Shihuang
  • 31. What did creating cave temples and sculptures garner for devotees?
A) Land ownership
B) High military rank
C) Merit aligned to their own personal growth
D) Imperial tax exemptions
  • 32. Besides garnering merit, what did temples and sculptures give to devotees?
A) A guide for agricultural planting
B) A map of western trade routes
C) A reference for worship and meditative inspiration
D) A chronicle of Han dynasty battles
  • 33. Which of the following is listed as a major rock-cut site with large groups of excavated caves?
A) Terracotta Army pits
B) Yungang Grottoes
C) Altay Tombs
D) Maoling Mausoleum
  • 34. Which of the following is also a major rock-cut site mentioned in the text?
A) Summer Palace
B) Forbidden City
C) Longmen Grottoes
D) Great Wall
  • 35. Name another major rock-cut site featuring large groups of excavated caves from the text.
A) Maijishan Grottoes
B) Huo Qubing Mausoleum
C) Xi'an City Walls
D) Qin Shihuang Mausoleum
  • 36. Which cave site is included alongside Yungang, Longmen, and Maijishan?
A) Xinjiang Tombs
B) Mogao Grottoes only in name
C) Mogao Caves
D) Altay Caves
  • 37. What is the approximate history span of Chinese sculpture in years according to the text?
A) More than 3,000 years
B) More than 1,000 years
C) More than 500 years
D) More than 5,000 years
  • 38. Whose sculpture did Chinese sculpture eventually influence?
A) Egypt
B) Greece
C) Rome
D) Japan
  • 39. What kind of decoration was avoided in traditional Chinese ritual bronzes?
A) The human figure
B) Complex patterns
C) Zoomorphic decoration
D) Animal motifs
  • 40. Where were huge figures recently discovered that contrasted with traditional ritual bronzes by depicting human figures?
A) The Terracotta Army
B) Sanxingdui
C) Imperial tombs
D) Khalchayan
  • 41. For whose tomb was the spectacular Terracotta Army assembled?
A) A Buddhist monk
B) The first Emperor of Western Zhou
C) Qin Shi Huang
D) The Emperor of Tang
  • 42. In the 5th century, the use of images in worship was attacked as a specifically what practice?
A) Buddhist practice
B) Confucian practice
C) Imperial practice
D) Daoist practice
  • 43. What best describes large religious sculpture in China since native religions usually do not use cult images?
A) Nearly all Daoist
B) Nearly all Confucian
C) Nearly all Buddhist
D) Nearly all imperial portraiture
  • 44. The earliest Chinese gilt-bronze seated Buddha displays influence from 2nd-century Chinese tomb art and sculpture from where?
A) Egypt
B) Japan
C) Sanxingdui
D) Khalchayan
  • 45. Chinese Buddhism is the context of all known examples of what type of sculpture?
A) Large portrait sculpture
B) Ritual bronze vessels
C) Painted images of the emperor
D) Tomb horses and charioteers
  • 46. Approximately how many life-size terra-cotta figures of warriors and horses are in the Terracotta Army?
A) More than 10,000
B) More than 500
C) More than 7,000
D) More than 1,000
  • 47. When was the self-proclaimed first Emperor of Qin buried with the Terracotta Army?
A) 221 to 210 BC
B) c. 1500 BC
C) The 5th century AD
D) 210–209 BC
  • 48. Which of the following poses is NOT mentioned as part of the Terracotta Army?
A) Sitting rulers
B) Standing infantry
C) Charioteers with horses
D) Kneeling archers
  • 49. Which medium besides metalwork was especially used for high-standard small Buddhist figures and relief decoration?
A) Bronze ritual vessels
B) Jade
C) Terracotta
D) Wood
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