Question

Can some paraphrase this? ''He must study the Four Books, the Five Classics, other Confucian works, and know how to compose poems and write essays. Studying the 5 classics required memorization, but not much questioning.''

Answer 1

Answer: This one is a little complicated because I don't have any context, but here:

There won't be a huge amount of questions asked, but he (replace he with person's name) will need to memorize a lot from the books of Confucianism in order to write poems or essays.