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Destruction Of Libraries And Collections Part 2
Test Description: Part 2 of Destruction of Libraries test
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1) What phrase meaning "burning of books and burial of scholars" was created because book burnings became so common in China?
A
Feng Shui
B
Karate
C
Xìngfu de jieju
D
Fengshu Kengru
2) What handwritten Chinese encyclopedia, containing 22,937 sections, with over 370,000,000 words, was pillaged during the siege of Peking?
A
Yong Le Da Dian
B
50 Huise Yinying
C
Xi Cai
D
Shenghuo Rang Si
3) What library in Peking housed the last written copy of Yong Le Da Dian?
A
The People's Library
B
Hanlin Academy
C
Peking Public Library
D
Library of Mao
4) The Hanlin Academy was burned during what uprising?
A
Free Tibet
B
Rape of Nanking
C
Tienanmin Square protests
D
Boxer Rebellion
5) What library still holds 41 surviving volumes of the Yong Le Da Dian long after most others have returned their copies to China?
A
BCPL
B
Vernadsky Library, Kiev
C
New York Public Library
D
Library of Congress
6) What Belgian library was first burned in 1914, rebuilt and opened in 1928, but promptly destroyed again in 1940, losing well over 230,000 items?
A
Library of The Catholic University of Louvain
B
Belgian Free Library
C
The Hague Library
D
Biblio de Ghent
7) What treaty required Germany to restock and fund the Library at Louvain after World War I?
A
Treaty of Trianon
B
Treaty of Ghent
C
Treaty of Sèvres
D
Treaty of Versailles
8) Manuscripts of the famous explorer Vasco da Gama were destroyed in a fire triggered by an earthquake in what European capital?
A
Rome, Italy
B
Lisbon, Portugal
C
Paris, France
D
Madrid, Spain
9) The Palace library of Marquis of Louriçal housed a handwritten history by what Holy Roman emperor before it was destroyed by earthquake related fire?
A
Charles V
B
Pippin the Short
C
Charlemagne
D
Charles the Bald
10) Records of the Portuguese East India Company were destroyed by the Lisbon earthquake in what year?
A
1812
B
1492
C
1776
D
1755
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