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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Ricci compare a ship's pilot?
(a) The soul of the crew.
(b) The eyes of the Emperor.
(c) The mind of God.
(d) The hand of God.

2. What is the subject of Ricci's book that he wrote while in Nanching?
(a) Agriculture and animal husbandry in the Chinese countryside.
(b) The teachings of the great members of Western civilization.
(c) An explanation of the Christian Bible.
(d) Manners and behavior in Western cultures.

3. What did Ricci do to the first Chinese idiograph?
(a) Combined it with the idiograph for peace.
(b) Cut it into four different idiographs.
(c) Cut it diagonally.
(d) Cut it into three different idiographs.

4. About what did Ricci's Chinese Christian converts complain?
(a) Hostility from other Chinese.
(b) Repression from the government.
(c) Inability to understand the papacy.
(d) Lack of Christian works, such as the Bible.

5. What effect did the Japanese threat have on Ricci?
(a) The Chinese despised Christians and feared Ricci.
(b) The Chinese tolerated Christians but ignored Ricci.
(c) The Chinese welcomed Christians and embraced Ricci.
(d) The Chinese ignored both the Christians and Ricci.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the meanings of the split idiographs of "wu"?

2. Whom did Ricci meet in Lisbon, Portugal, who died without an heir?

3. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", which one of these does NOT describe Governor Lu?

4. During the trip in 1578, what did the ships on which Ricci was riding pick up in Mozambique?

5. How long had the Alaleona and Pellicani families been fighting when Ricci was a child in Macerata?

(see the answer key)

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