QUIZ 7 ON ANCIENT CHINA-THE RISE TO AN EMPIRE
1. Confucius was a contemporary of
A) Socrates.
B) Seneca.
C) Aristotle.
D) Plato.
2. Of little interest to Confucius in the Analects:
A) the exercise of propriety
B) the role of the ruler
C) religion and the gods
D) respect for parents
3. Han China and the Roman Empire
A) traded by way of Asian intermediaries.
B) were comparable in geographic size, power, and prestige.
C) were famous for producing lengthy historical chronicles.
D) all of the above.
4. The substance and tone of Sima Qian's historical record is
A) cynical and skeptical.
B) intuitive and impressionistic.
C) practical and this-worldly.
D) mystical and other-worldly.
