Read the passage and choose the best answers: Tay ethnic group

Read the passage and choose the best answers.

Tay ethnic group, with more than 1.6 million of the population, is the second largest ethnic group in Viet Nam. They inhabit northern Viet Nam such as Cao Bang, Lang Son, Bac Kan, Thai Nguyen, Quang Ninh, and some of the regions in Bac Ninh, Bac Giang. Moreover, some of them emigrated to other provinces of the center highlands as Dak Lak, Lam Dong.

The Tay language belongs to the Tay-Thai Group. The Tay has developed a rich culture of poems, songs, epics, tales, funny stories, and dance. Popular folk songs of the Tay are call-and-response singing, lullaby, Then, and wedding and funeral singing. It is sung at events such as worshipping at the ancestral altar, praying for sick people, praying for a couple to have children, at family get-togethers, to welcome guests, and at a “going to the field” festival held in the first month of the new year. It is an indispensable part of the spiritual and religious life of the Tay. The instrument “Dan Tinh” is presented in all the cultural and spiritual life of the Tay. It is the soul of folk songs and folk dance.

The costumes of the Tay are simple. They wear indigo-blue clothes. Besides, the Tay is also very famous for weaving workmanship. Their products are not only famous for the quality but also impresses with an ornate imbued with national identity.

The Tay is a resident of the traditional agricultural farming country. They have known for a long-time intensive cultivation and extensive application of measures such as digging irrigation ditches, gutter. In particular, the Tay have praxis with threshing in the field on the wooden trough, which they called “Loong”, then carrying grain home. Besides wet rice, Tay also plants dry rice, crops, fruit trees, ...

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1. What is the population of Tay ethnic group?

A. 2.6 million              B. 1.6 million              C. 1.5 million              D. 3.6 million

2. The Tay inhabit some following provinces except _____________.

A. Cao Bang               B. Thai Nguyen           C. Phu Tho                  D. Bac Giang

3. What is “Then”?

A. It is the Tay language.                               B. It is the soul of folk songs.

C. It is a popular folk song of the Tay.           D. It is the costume of the Tay.

4. What is the instrument of the Tay?

A. Dan Tinh                B. Dan Tranh              C. Dan Bau                 D. Dan Nguyet

5. What do the Tay wear?

A. indigo-red clothes              B. indigo-blue clothes  C. indigo-blue shirts              D. indigo-black clothes

6. What have they known for?

A. fishing                    B. cultivation              C. tourism                   D. hunting