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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three, The First Picture: The Apostle in the Waves.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Matteo Ricci teach the Chinese people?
(a) How to speak English.
(b) How to build a memory palace.
(c) How to read the Bible.
(d) How to build better villages.

2. According to "Chapter Three, the First Picture: The Apostle in the Waves", when Ricci travels from Nanjing to Nanchang, who appears in his most significant dream?
(a) God.
(b) Peter the Apostle.
(c) Mary.
(d) Jesus.

3. According to Ricci, how is the size of the memory palace determined?
(a) By the number of good works the people perform.
(b) By the number of times the people receive the sacraments.
(c) By the amount of money the people give to the church.
(d) By how much the people wish to remember.

4. At the end of "Chapter One: Building the Palace", what does the author encourages his readers to do?
(a) To keep an open mind about the connection of magic to theology.
(b) To focus on the connections between Ricci's classical influences and his Chinese present.
(c) To understand why the Chinese could not understand Christian theology.
(d) To devise mnemonic devices to keep track of the four images and the four pictures.

5. In what year did Ricci join the Jesuits?
(a) 1552.
(b) 1610.
(c) 1583.
(d) 1571.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what did Ricci's Chinese Christian converts complain?

2. From whom did Ricci devise this memory method?

3. How can Ricci's use of mnemonic devices be understood?

4. What did Ricci do to the first Chinese idiograph?

5. When the king died without an heir, what effect did this have?

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