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King Sejong Fact or Fiction?

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    King Sejong the Great
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  • King Sejong ruled Korea during which Dynasty?
    Joseon Dynasty
    Silla Dynasty
    Qing Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty
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  • King Sejong became king in:
    1418
    1446
    1500
    1392
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  • What was King Sejong's most important achievement?
    Building a royal submarine
    Creating Hangul
    Inventing pizza
    Discovering Jeju Island
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  • Why did King Sejong create Hangul?
    To confuse his enemies
    To make reading and writing more difficult
    To help common people read and write
    To give his subjects something to do when it snowed
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  • The book that introduced Hangul was called:
    Hunminjeongeum
    The World According to Sejong the Great
    The Royal Code
    The Golden Scroll
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  • Before Hangul, most Koreans used:
    English letters
    Classical Chinese characters
    Japanese Kana
    Drums and smoke signals
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  • Which one of the following is NOT true about King Sejong?
    He created Hangul
    He supported scientific tools
    He tested letters using carrier hawks
    His face is on the 10,000 won bill
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  • Which of the following is NOT true about King Sejong?
    He is the reason Koreans celebrate Hangul Day on October 9
    He built a floating greenhouse
    He improved agriculture
    He supported scholars
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  • Why was Hangul so important?
    It used only numbers
    It replaced spoken language
    It was easier for common people to learn
    It was the first alphabet ever made
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  • What invention was created during King Sejong's rule?
    An underground tunnel from the mainland to Jeju Island
    The first Kimchi refrigerator
    A floating palace laboratory
    An instrument for measuring rainfall
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  • Which of the following is not true about King Sejong?
    He supported music
    He valued education
    He worked with scholars
    He conducted a jazz band under a silk canopy
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  • King Sejong's leadership shows that he valued
    Education and fairness
    Wealth over everything
    Only military power
    Being popular
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  • If Hangul had not been invented what might have happened?
    Nothing would have changed
    The common people would not have learned to read
    Koreans would have stoppped farming
    People would have stopped speaking
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  • Which of these is not historically accurate about King Sejong?
    His legacy is still celebrated today
    He ruled in the 1400s
    He used Parrots to test how Hangul sounded
    He created Hangul
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  • Why is King Sejong still important today?
    He helped design the first computer in Korea
    He built Korea's highway system
    He banned homework for kids under the age of 19
    His system of writing is still used in Korea today
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  • Why was it difficult for the common people to read and write?
    Schools did not exist
    Only city people were allowed to read
    Books were illegal
    Chinese Hanja was very difficult for common people to learn.
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