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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight, The Fourth Image: The Fourth Picture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ricci was a missionary in 16th century China, what was one way he used music to impress the Chinese?
(a) He performed one-man concerts during Christmas and Easter celebrations.
(b) He directed a children's choir and orchestra.
(c) He taught the elite Chinese eunuchs to play Western music.
(d) He provided piano lessons once a week.

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

3. During the 16th century, what did Yu Chunxi's teacher Zhuzong tell Yu Chunxi about Ricci's arguments?
(a) Ricci was old and should be ignored.
(b) Ricci must be stopped by any means.
(c) Ricci should be criticized in the Chinese press.
(d) Ricci was not worth his time.

4. Toward the end of his life, what irony struck Ricci about the Chinese?
(a) The Chinese sought to dominate smaller surrounding countries.
(b) The Chinese in the cities embraced Catholicism before the people in the rural areas.
(c) The Chinese feared foreign nations despite having a large population and large army.
(d) The Chinese were better educated than the threatening nations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Ricci born?

2. Where and when did the Jesuits publish their first book?

3. When Ricci became a missionary in China during the 16th century, why were the Chinese eager to learn?

4. How many pictures are in the series of prints that made up the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?

5. When Ricci was a 16th century missionary in China, how did he use the event of the Inquisition when teaching the Chinese?

(see the answer key)

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