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