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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
Fengshu Kengru
B
Karate
C
Xìngfu de jieju
D
Feng Shui
2) What handwritten Chinese encyclopedia, containing 22,937 sections, with over 370,000,000 words, was pillaged during the siege of Peking?
A
Xi Cai
B
50 Huise Yinying
C
Shenghuo Rang Si
D
Yong Le Da Dian
3) What library in Peking housed the last written copy of Yong Le Da Dian?
A
Hanlin Academy
B
The People's Library
C
Library of Mao
D
Peking Public Library
4) The Hanlin Academy was burned during what uprising?
A
Tienanmin Square protests
B
Boxer Rebellion
C
Free Tibet
D
Rape of Nanking
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
Vernadsky Library, Kiev
B
Library of Congress
C
New York Public Library
D
BCPL
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
The Hague Library
B
Belgian Free Library
C
Library of The Catholic University of Louvain
D
Biblio de Ghent
7) What treaty required Germany to restock and fund the Library at Louvain after World War I?
A
Treaty of Ghent
B
Treaty of Versailles
C
Treaty of Trianon
D
Treaty of Sèvres
8) Manuscripts of the famous explorer Vasco da Gama were destroyed in a fire triggered by an earthquake in what European capital?
A
Lisbon, Portugal
B
Paris, France
C
Madrid, Spain
D
Rome, Italy
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
Pippin the Short
B
Charles the Bald
C
Charlemagne
D
Charles V
10) Records of the Portuguese East India Company were destroyed by the Lisbon earthquake in what year?
A
1492
B
1776
C
1755
D
1812
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