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