CHINA 1351 CHINA 



Questions 



Why does the climate exhibit greater extremes than would that of an island 

 in the same latitude? 



How do the Chinese manage to produce crops on arid hillsides? 



What relation is there between the Chinese reverence for ancestors and the 

 scarcity of railways in the country? 



Which has the easier task in learning to read, a Chinese schoolboy or an English 

 schoolboy? Why? 



With what science is the first really authentic date in Chinese history connected? 



What is meant by the term ''Boxer," and what did the Boxer Rebellion hope to 

 accomplish? 



How is it possible that some day China will have no lakes? 



What are the "floating farms"? Why are they necessary? 



What effect has the overcrowding of the country had on the roads in country 

 districts? 



What does a Chinaman mean when he speaks of "golden lilies"? Of "a little 

 insect"? 



Why is tea drunk so widely and so copiously? 



What third country was the occasion for war between China and Japan? 



To what height are the northern mountains terraced and cultivated? 



How is the garbage-disposal problem solved in a Chinese city? What effect 

 has this on agriculture? 



What is "pidgin-English"? Give an example. 



Why would you not care to eat with a Chinese family of the poorest class? 



Does the government resemble that of Canada or that of the United States in 

 the relative amount of power delegated to the central government and to the indi- 

 vidual provinces or states? 



Why was Charles George Gordon known as "Chinese" Gordon? 



What is "China's Sorrow"? Why is it so called? 



Of what bird do the people make use in one of their important industries? 



What has been the chief curse of the women of China? 



How did Great Britain gain possession of Hong-kong? 



Why was the country able to keep itself shut up, away from intercourse with 

 other peoples, for so long a time? 



Name two fruits, very familiar in North America, which originated in this 

 Oriental land. 



Why is the extremely fine, elaborate embroidery no longer made? 



What has religion to do with the overcrowding in China? 



How does ancestor-worship result in the low position of women? 



How and when did a mode of hair-dressirfg become a symbol of subjection? 



How does China rank as to size aming the countries of the world? As to pop- 

 ulation? 



Name four ways in which the Chinese would miss the bamboo if they were de- 

 prived of it. 



Why are there almost no cows or horses to be seen throughout the country? 



What great curse of the people has the government undertaken to abolish? 



What does religion chiefly mean to the Chinese? 



What do the Chinese call their country? 



What was the object of the famous examinations to which Chinese students 

 were formerly subjected? 



