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WorksheetsSeven Ages of K'ang-hsi Part 2
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 22mins
Order the first five of the "Seven Ages of Man" according to a word or phrase from As You Like It.
the nurse's arms
snail
woeful ballad
cannon's mouth
round belly
Order the last five of the "Seven Ages of Man" according to a word or phrase from As You Like It.
woeful ballad
cannon's mouth
round belly
spectacles
second childishness
Match a key word from "the seven ages" to a word or phrase related to K'ang-hsi's life.
quarrel
marriage
shrunk
archer
oblivion
concentrate power
severe
perpetual bickering
furnace
Peking winter
For the first half of his (a) , until his early forties, K'ang-hsi (b) (c) the image of an Emperor Wu, (d) domestic unrest and (e) China's frontiers.
Which of the following qualities does Spence not enumerate in his short list of what "greatness in a country" includes?
adaptability
power
liveliness
prosperity
What does the word "doctored" (first paragraph, p. 99) mean in context?
modified
treated
faked
compiled
Find a phrasal verb in the final paragraph of page 99 that means "to conceal something unfavorable."
(a)
How would you describe Spence's tone when describing Yung-cheng, K'ang-hsi's successor?
even-handed
sarcastic
amused
disinterested
What evidence does Spence offer that K'ang-hsi may have suffered a mild stroke?
In the first paragraph of page 100, what is implied about Shi Tao's art?
Find a word in the second-to-last paragraph that most nearly means "scornful."
(a)
Twice this essay mentions the Jesuits. How would you describe K'ang-hsi's relationship with the Jesuits? Give at least two pieces of evidence from the text.
Wikipedia says wen and wu are "a conceptual pair...describing opposition and complementarity of civil and military realms of government." Even if you had no idea what wen and wu (page 96) meant before reading this essay, what evidence from the text would lead you to the same idea as that expressed in Wikipedia?
