"Sending off Yuan Er on a Mission to Anxi" Part 1 Quiz

1. Question

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“Sending Off Yuan Er on His Mission to Anxi”

consists of a single quatrain.
consists four nine-syllable lines.
consists of four non-rhyming couplets.
consists of four unfinished sentences.

2. Question

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Yuan Er

has come to Weicheng to take leave of Wang Wei.
is the only surviving son in his generation of the Yuan family.
is departing on an official mission to the Anxi Protectorate.
has come to Weicheng to take leave of Wang Wei AND is the only surviving son in his generation of the Yuan family.

3. Question

1 point(s)

The Anxi Protectorate

was located in the northern region of present-day Vietnam.
was economically important to Tang China because of its location along the Silk Road.
was the site of several bloody battles between Tang China and Cossack horsemen.
was Wang Wei’s ancestral home.

4. Question

1 point(s)

When a traveler set off on a long journey, it was customary for his friends

to hire a fashionable painter to paint his portrait.
to pelt him with willow twigs and chant a song of departure.
to accompany him on the first stage of the journey and send him off after a banquet.
to raise their glasses in the direction of Yang Pass and recite poems about the Silk Road.

5. Question

1 point(s)

The term “the High Tang”

refers to a fortified mountain pass.
refers to the period between roughly 720 and the middle of the eighth century, when many of the most famous poems in the Chinese literary tradition were written.
was coined by Wang Wei after Yuan Er’s death.
was coined by Yuan Er after Wang Wei’s death.

6. Question

1 point(s)

How many lines are in a couplet?

2
1
3
4
5

7. Question

1 point(s)

How many lines are in a quatrain?

4
3
2
1
5

8. Question

1 point(s)

Put the verses in the correct order.

Drink one more cup of wine, dear sir;
The guesthouse is green with the color of new willows.
West of Yang Pass, there’ll be no old friends.
In Weicheng the dust is dampened with dawn rain;

9. Question

1 point(s)

Put the verses in the correct order.

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