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The Empress Dowager Cixi Quiz - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 25 times
- The average score is 8 of 17
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| During which Chinese dynasty was Cixi's (de facto) reign? | Qing | 96%
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| Which ethnic group was Cixi a part of? | Manchu | 88%
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| Cixi initially supported what 1898 uprising, thinking it would force foreign forces out of China? | Boxer Rebellion | 75%
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| As a woman, Cixi was never allowed into the front section of what "city"? | Forbidden City | 75%
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| Which harmful custom, practiced on young Han girls, did Cixi put an end to? | Foot binding | 67%
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| Before her death, Cixi appointed ____, who would become the last emperor of China. | Puyi | 58%
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| After the death of the above, Cixi adopted a son, making him Emperor _______. | Guangxu | 46%
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| Following the death of the above, Cixi organized a coup with his former senior concubine, ____. | Ci'an | 38%
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| During Cixi's (temporary) retirement, after the above had officially assumed power, China was defeated in which war? | First Sino-Japanese War | 38%
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| As a young woman, Cixi became a consort to which Chinese emperor? | Xianfeng | 38%
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| Along with the above and counselor Prince Gong, Cixi quelled which revolt against the dynasty's rule? | Taiping Rebellion | 33%
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| Cixi was the biological mother of Emperor _______, her husband's only son. | Tongzhi | 33%
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| 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? | Summer Palace | 29%
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| After the _______ ____ of Reform, conservative officials who had learned of a plot to assassinate Cixi launched a coup, returning her to power. | Hundred Days | 25%
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| What was Cixi's given birth name? | Yehenara | 25%
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| 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? | Little An | 17%
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| Thinking the sound would disturb the tombs of the ancestors, Cixi delayed the construction of _________ in China for two decades. | Railroads | 13%
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