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History of China I
(HIST 122-01)
50-Minute Mid-Term Examination  - Sample of directions & format
 [check your syllabus for the appropriate date]

GENERAL DIRECTIONS:  
    (1)    Read over all the questions carefully before choosing the ones to which you can give the most complete answers.  
    (2)    This 50-minute examination will require more from you in terms of reading and thinking than of writing.  
    (3)    Chinese words are given in Pinyin transliteration.  
    (4)    Use two sets of bluebooks: one for the essay question, the other for the quotation and term IDs.  
    (5)    There's no need to copy questions and you may answer in any order, but please label all answers.
    (6)    Also, number your bluebooks (e.g., "1 of 3," "2 of 3," etc.), as appropriate.
    (7)    Finally, please fill in the attached grading-sheet, indicating your choices for each of the questions, and return it along with this test-sheet and your bluebooks.

. ESSAY (30 minutes) Choose one (1) of the following:

A.
B.
C.

II. IDENTIFICATION (20 minutes) Answer both A and B:

A. Choosing two (2) of the following four quotations, please:

a) indicate as closely as you can the date and the speaker/ author/ subject/ philosophic school (of the passage itself, not the collection in which you found it); and...

b) give a sentence or two explaining the context and significance of this particular quotation (not of the larger selection from which it is taken or of the school/philosophy/movement which it represents):

(In cases where "***" appears, it stands for the name of a person you should identify.)

1)
2)
3)
4)

B. Choose one (1) of the a-b-c items from each of the following three numbered groups [i.e., do not answer all three from one group] and give:

a) a brief identification (i.e., including chronological, cultural, administrative, philosophical, and/or geographical context where appropriate), and

b) a succinct statement of the historical significance.

1)
    a)
    b)
    c)

2)
        [sim.]

3)
        [sim.]