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yo on Chinese 252 2ND MIDTERM PART 2 Icertify that I have neither given nor received aid on Fall, 2009 this examination. NAME SIGNED. (print) ° PART I, SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (30 points). Do any 15 of the following questions. To aid correction, please put an X or some other readily identifiable sign next to all items that you either do not do or do not want counted. If you do not do this, I will simply count the first 15 answered items, 1. Who lived earlier, Kingzi or Qin ShY Hudngdi? 0) 2. The lines “Earth endures, Heaven endures; some time both shall end; / But this unending sorrow will go on and on forever” (KAILA A WH, WLR Af MM BAF) are associated with the story of: a) Zhu Yingtdi and Liéng Shanb6; b) St Qin and Zhang Yi; ‘c) Tang Xudnzdng and Yang Guiféi; d) Ya Boyd and Zhong Ziqi 3. The Roman empire was roughly contemporaneous with: a) Spring and Autumn era; b) the Warring States era; c) the Han dynasty; d) the Tang dynasty : wh gy 4. Which two couplets in a hishi or “regulated poem” have to show grammatical parallelism? 2 a) . vs. What ruler did Guin Zhong serve as prime minister? ()/ HL 6. Tang chudngi tales were preceded (in the “North-south Division” or Six Dynasties Period) by accounts of: a)eerie happenings; b)Jove-suicides; c)} predictions that proved accurate; d) unconventional battle tactics “7, BO Yi and Shi Qi: a) were stabbed to death as they slept; _b) died defending the Zhiu capital from an invasion; ¢) died of starvation on a mountaintop; _d) died after a shaman cursed them 8. How many lines make up a juéjit (“cut-off”) poem? “+ 9. The legend of the weaving maid and the herd boy and the yearly festival associated with them seem to have originated during the: a) Spring and Autumnera; b) the Warring States era; c} the Han dynasty; d) the Tang dynasty + V/10. Sui Y4ngdi (the second and last emperor of the Sui) is known for his: a) extravagance and dissipation b) fine calligraphy c) deviousness and cruelty; d) military genius . VIL. “T have heard the hearts of sages have seven apertures,” is a saying attributed in legend to: a) Kéngzi b) Zhagé Liang c) Han Wiidi ‘d) King Zhou of Shang . 12. Who wrote the line “A heart that is distant creates its own wilderness?” 13, What would it mean if I accused someone of “inquiring about the vessels in the central plain?” 14. Who in 246 BCE carried out the order of the king of Qin to take troops out and wipe out what remained of the Zhou royal domain? 15. What is the origin of the term zhi yim (“know-sound”: “close friend”)? 6. With what ruler is the expression “burn-books-bury-scholars” (fén shi kéng rii) associated? 
