Featured Article Quiz #184
Gu Yanwu
#1 What was Gu Yanwu (Gu Jishen) best-known work primarily focused on?
An edited collection of notes emphasizing practical statecraft and history based on original sources
A systematic textbook that taught Neo-Confucian doctrine to students
A legal code meant to standardize punishment across all provinces
#2 After the Qing conquest, what did Gu Yanwu choose to do regarding official political roles?
Support the fallen Ming, change his name to Yanwu, and avoid taking an official political post
Join the Qing government immediately and accept a high-ranking official position
Become a Qing scholar focused mainly on defending centralized bureaucracy and law codes
#3 Which event is mentioned as happening when Gu Yanwu was three years old?
He contracted smallpox, which permanently disfigured one of his eyes
He failed the triennial examinations and stopped studying Confucian classics
He traveled across China gathering notes for geographic works