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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ricci was a missionary in China, what did he Ricci report to Girolamo Costa?
(a) The Chinese marvel when Ricci tells them stories of the shrine to Mary at Loreto.
(b) The Chinese require patience and direction as they learn about the Christian faith.
(c) The Chinese have requested additional Chinese missionaries.
(d) The Chinese mission needs more funds.

2. To which of the Buddhist beliefs was Ricci particularly hostile when he was a missionary in 16th century China?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Animal sacrifice.
(c) Reincarnation.
(d) Vegetarianism.

3. When Ricci divided the fourth ideograph, "hao," what was the new meaning?
(a) "Woman" and "child" created a reference to the Virgin Mary.
(b) "Man," "woman," and "child" created a reference to the Holy Family.
(c) "Woman" and "girl" created a reference to Mary's virginity.
(d) "Man" and "woman" created a reference to the marriage of Mary and Joseph.

4. During the 16th century, how did the way Ignatius Loyola wanted students to learn affect Matteo Ricci?
(a) Ricci chose to become a Jesuit.
(b) Ricci rose to the top of his class.
(c) Ricci developed his mnemonic technique.
(d) Ricci argued with his instructors about the method's futility.

5. During the Renaissance, how did Ignatius Loyola want students to learn?
(a) By committing many subjects to memory.
(b) By reading the Bible and relating it to the sciences.
(c) By working in small groups to teach each other.
(d) By writing sections of textbooks in their own hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the Renaissance, on what did the Jesuits depend financially to support themselves and their missionaries?

2. Who was the college teacher in Rome that maintained a correspondence with Ricci after Ricci left school?

3. What was the memory image that Ricci associated with the altered second image?

4. According to Chapter Seven, The Third Picture: The Men of Sodom, what is the subject of the series of prints that made up third picture "The Men of Sodom"?

5. Why did Ricci alter the story of the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were Ricci's first converts in China?

2. How did the Chinese receive the ideas of Western science?

3. Why did Ricci wish he had more money?

4. According to "Chapter Seven, The Third Picture: The Men of Sodom", what is the image in the third picture?

5. What was Ricci's attitude toward Buddhism?

6. On what did the Jesuits depend financially?

7. According to "Chapter Six, The Third Image: Profit and Harvest", what were some of the gifts that Ricci was able to give the Chinese?

8. According to the author's speculation, why did Ricci seem so drawn to Mary, the mother of Jesus?

9. What did the Jesuits in China allow the Chinese to believe about Mary?

10. Where in the Memory Palace did Ricci place this last image?

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