1.1 Reading Quiz

Name

Did you complete the assigned reading & TDQs?

• YES
• NO

1. TRUE or FALSE: China's Bureaucracy created a meritocracy which ensured that candidates for government positions were qualified.

• TRUE
• FALSE

2. Which of the following is NOT true about the Song Dynasty?

• The Song Dynasty improved agricultural methods and tools which led to population growth
• The goods and money collected through the tributary system created stability and stimulated trade
• The Song Dynasty reduced taxes paid by citizens and instead paid citizens to work on public projects
• China's proto industrialization was very similar to Europes, because China created large factories to produce goods

3. The scholar gentry was a new social class in China that

• was more wealthy than the aristocracy.
• was uneducated but owned land.
• were similar in almost every was to the peasant social class.
• were educated in Confucian philosophy and outnumbered the aristocracy.

4. TRUE or FALSE: The majority of peasants in the Song Dynasty could read.

• TRUE
• FALSE

5. All of the following were religions in China during the Song Dynasty EXCEPT:

• Islam
• Buddhism
• Taoism
• Neo-Confucianism