China Review – Geography, Lessons 1 & 2

1. ____ a character that stands for objects.

• pictograph

• hieroglyph

• symbol

• ideogram

2. ____ a dusty yellow soil good for farming.

• loess

• sand

• clay

• silt

3. ____ long-dead family members.

• ancestor

• descendant

• sibling

• cousin

4. ____ a character that represents a thought in Chinese writing.

• ideograph

• logogram

• morpheme

• pictogram

5. ____ appointed officials that run different parts of government.

• bureaucracy

• administration

• regime

• officials

6. ____ a leader who has his own army.

• warlord

• dictator

• general

• monarch

7. ____ a person who belongs to the highest social class.

• aristocrat

• plebeian

• commoner

• bourgeois

8. ____ passed down from one person to another in the same family.

• hereditary

• temporary

• accidental

• sporadic

the belief that the gods gave kings the right to rule.

• Mandate of Heaven

• Divine Right of Kings

• Heavenly Decree

• Celestial Order

10. ____ the responsibility children have to obey, respect and care for parents.

• filial piety

• civic duty

• family honor

• parental reverence