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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six, The Third Image: Profit and Harvest.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Chinese seem to prefer in its military?
(a) Pomp and circumstance over actual combat.
(b) Diplomacy and nationalism over expansion.
(c) Actual combat over pomp and circumstance.
(d) Expansion over diplomacy and nationalism.

2. Who defended the use of these mnemonic devices as part of the moral regulation of memory?
(a) Erasmus.
(b) Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Cornelius Agrippa.
(d) Rabelais.

3. Who endangered marine trips during the 16th century in the Chinese seas?
(a) Pirates and privateers.
(b) Ill-trained captains and navigators.
(c) Greedy ship owners.
(d) Mutinous seamen.

4. When Ricci became a missionary in China during the 16th century, what was he able to do in five months?
(a) Memorize the first five books of the Bible.
(b) Memorize almost all Chinese idiographs.
(c) Complete his Jesuit curriculum.
(d) Speak Chinese, Latin and Greek fluently.

5. Where are the memory palaces that Ricci creates to be built?
(a) In the children's hospitals.
(b) In the children's homes.
(c) In the people's towns.
(d) In the people's minds.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ricci, which one of these is NOT a way in which memory palaces can be built?

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

3. What were the meanings of the two new idiographs made when Ricci split the second idiograph down the middle?

4. According to the charismatic Jesuit missionary, whose mixture of "cruelty, dignity, depravity, and hypocrisy" would prevent them from truly living the faith?

5. Where did Ricci spend five years as an apprentice?

(see the answer key)

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