Chinese Invention / Roman Legacy Quiz



Chinese Invention / Roman Legacy Quiz A

1. Paper was made first from ___________________.

a. elm tree bark

b. papyrus

c. old rags

d. mulberry tree bark

2. Which of these shows the inventions that became an industry for China?

a. paper, gunpowder, porcelain, and silk

b. porcelain, silk, gems, and spices

c. gunpowder, silk, spices, and glassware

d. porcelain, gems, paper, and gunpowder

3. How long did the Chinese keep their secret of making paper?

a. 25 years

b. 50 years

c. 250 years

d. 500 years

4. What Roman architectural legacy would you find at the U.S. capitol building?

a. cameo

b. aqueduct

c. dome

d. stadium

5. What is one way that Latin, the Roman language, has influenced the English language?

a. English is written with all capital letters.

b. Latin is spoken in many homes.

c. Latin words come from English roots.

d. English words use Latin roots and prefixes.

6. Three ways to describe porcelain are:

a. white, underwater, and backwards

b. waterproof, clay, and Japanese

c. white, waterproof, and light can pass through

d. heavy, white, and light can pass through

7. Roman aqueducts are a legacy of

a. language

b. numbers

c. engineering

d. architecture

8. The compass works because

a. a lodestone is magic.

b. the earth has a magnetic field that makes the lodestone point West.

c. the earth is round.

d. the earth has a magnetic field that makes the lodestone point North.

9. Three inventions that use gunpowder are

a. porcelain, arrows, and cannons

b. bullets, flamethrowers, and grenades

c. cannons, grenades, and compasses

d. silk, flamethrowers, and rifles

10. Woodblock printing was better than copying by hand because

a. Chinese people did not like to write.

b. the woodblocks were never wrong.

c. woodblock printing made many pages much faster.

d. now priest could be printers.

11. The saying “All roads lead to Rome” meant

a. that you could not be lost in Rome.

b. that all the roads the Romans built lead to the city of Rome.

c. that every road in the world belonged to Rome.

d. that Rome was full of tourists.

12. A mosaic is

a. a painting on the wall that looks like what is outside.

b. a picture painted on the moist plaster of a wall or ceiling.

c. a pipe or channel built to carry water between distant places

d. a picture made up of small pieces of glass, tiles, gems, or colored stone.

13. Three things that happened in the Roman Collosseum were

a. gladiator battles, marriages, and chariot races.

b. football games, animal fights, and naval battles.

c. animal fights, gladiator battles, and operas.

d. slave fights, animal fights, and gladiator battles.

14. In Roman Numerals C means

a. 10

b. 50

c. 100

d. 1000

15. Put these events in the correct chronological order.

A. Gunpowder was invented.

B. Paper was invented.

C. The compass was invented.

D. The mechanical clock was invented.

a. B,C,A,D

b. D.B,A,C

c. B,C,D,A

d. C,B,D,A

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