General
High Tang
Middle Tang
Late Tang

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To better understand what you have read take the following quiz. No answers are provided so have fun looking for them within our pages and learn a little about the Tang dynasty!

1) Tang poetry is written in seven primary forms dealing with what relationship?

a) humans to humans
b) children to their parents
c) humans to natural surroundings
d) nature and its animals

2) ________________ in poetry divided the Tang into three periods, ________,_________, and ________.

3) What influenced Li Bai in his work? Why was it that he never really served his country? What are some of the several aspects of his work?

4) How did Du Fu's life and work differ from that of Li Bai's and Wang Wei's? Can it be said that despite his infamous work, he had a difficult life? Why or why not?

5) Unlike the other two renowned High Tang poets, Wang Wei reflected Buddhism in his works. How else his did work differ?

6) What was one sharp contrast between the poems of High Tang and Middle Tang and why?

7) In what way was Li Bai influential to poets in all three Tang periods?

8) Li Shengyin was the most ________ poet of his time period. His works reflected the styles of three other famous poets: _________, ____________ and ________________.

9) Near the end of the Tang dynasty, poetry began to progress into this specific style which moved on to the Song dynasty:

a) haiku
b) prose
c) verse
d) sonnet

10) Why can it be said that the Tang Dynasty was very prosperous in literature? Does it have a lot of influence in China and the world today?