Modern Chinese History Quiz

Do you know all there is to know about the modern history of the most populous country in the world? Check here to find out...

Question 1: What series of wars with Britain forced China to allow the import of narcotics?
	The Tonkin Wars
	The Cocaine Wars
	The Sino-British Wars
	The '50s Wars
	The Opium Wars

Question 2: Who was the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty?
	Cixi
	Mao Zedong
	Puyi
	Kangxi
	Confucious

Question 3: What man is credited by those on the mainland and in Taiwan as the father of modern China?
	Mao Zedong
	Chiang Kai-Shek
	Douglas MacArthur
	Sun Yat-Sen
	Confucious

Question 4: What year marked the founding of the People's Republic of China?
	1921
	1911
	1949
	1971
	1970

Question 5: What was the name of the disaster that aimed to improve China's production capacity but ended in starvation for tens of millions?
	Cultural Revolution
	Food for the Masses
	Catch up with Technology
	The Road to Ruin
	Great Leap Forward

Question 6: In which Chinese city did Japanese soldiers massacre as many as 300,000 Chinese civilians during WWII?
	Beijing
	Hong Kong
	Shanghai
	Chengdu
	Nanjing

Question 7: What is the name of the epic journey the Communists undertook in 1934 to escape the bombardments of the Kuomintang?
	The Westward Journey
	The Long March
	The Journey to Victory
	Over the Mountains and through the Woods
	The March for the Republic

Question 8: Which city did the Communists make their home in from 1935 until the end of the Japanese occupation?
	Yan'an
	Xi'an
	Hong Kong
	Shanghai
	Guangzhou (Canton)

Question 9: What is the name of the more market-oriented economic plan enacted after the death of Mao Zedong that has driven China to two decades of remarkable economic growth?
	Reform and Opening
	Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
	Three Represents
	The West is Best
	Capitalist Road

Question 10: What was the name of the devastating social program that destroyed many of China's cultural relics, sent its young people to toil in the countryside, and almost threw the country into anarchy between 1966 and 1976?
	The Great Proletarian Victory
	The Masses for Mao
	Cultural Revolution
	The Red Guard Uprising
	The Beijing Plan

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