The Empress Dowager Cixi Quiz

During which Chinese dynasty was Cixi's (de facto) reign?

What was Cixi's given birth name?

Which ethnic group was Cixi a part of?

As a young woman, Cixi became a consort to which Chinese emperor?

Following the death of the above, Cixi organized a coup with his former senior concubine, ____.

Along with the above and counselor Prince Gong, Cixi quelled which revolt against the dynasty's rule?

What was Cixi's nickname for her favorite eunuch, who was executed after she broke the rules by sending him on a trip outside the palace?

Cixi diverted funds from the Chinese navy in order to restore what palace, which had been destroyed by the British during the Second Opium War?

Cixi was the biological mother of Emperor _______, her husband's only son.

After the death of the above, Cixi adopted a son, making him Emperor _______.

During Cixi's (temporary) retirement, after the above had officially assumed power, China was defeated in which war?

After the _______ ____ of Reform, conservative officials who had learned of a plot to assassinate Cixi launched a coup, returning her to power.

Cixi initially supported what 1898 uprising, thinking it would force foreign forces out of China?

As a woman, Cixi was never allowed into the front section of what "city"?

Thinking the sound would disturb the tombs of the ancestors, Cixi delayed the construction of _________ in China for two decades.

Which harmful custom, practiced on young Han girls, did Cixi put an end to?

Before her death, Cixi appointed ____, who would become the last emperor of China.