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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 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 provided piano lessons once a week.
(d) He taught the elite Chinese eunuchs to play Western music.

2. What were the meanings of the two new idiographs made when Ricci split the second idiograph down the middle?
(a) Blade and knife.
(b) Grain and blade.
(c) Gain and benefit.
(d) Profit and loss.

3. Before Ricci was a missionary in 16th century China, who was thought to have engaged in sexual misconduct while in China?
(a) Ignatius Loyola.
(b) Matteo Ricci.
(c) Francis Xavier.
(d) Pope Paul IV.

4. When Ricci became a missionary in China during the 16th century, who was the scholar from Shanghai that converted to Christianity?
(a) Cheng Dayou.
(b) Xu Guangqi.
(c) Qu Rukui.
(d) Li Zhizao.

5. Where and when did the Jesuits publish their first book?
(a) Paris in 1539.
(b) Rome in 1559.
(c) Jerusalem in 1459.
(d) Lisbon in 1570.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the Renaissance, what did Ignatius Loyola encourage Jesuits to do with their possessions?

2. What was the meaning of the third idiograph chosen by Ricci?

3. 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"?

4. What did Ricci deplore that was widespread in Peking during the 16th century?

5. Which one of these is NOT part of the location where Ricci placed the new image in the Memory Palace?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was happening to the commercial side of life at this time?

2. What was Ricci's attitude toward Buddhism?

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

4. How did Ricci use this third picture in his work with the Chinese?

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

6. According to "Chapter Eight, The Fourth Image: The Fourth Picture", what was the relationship between Matteo Ricci and Girolamo Costa?

7. How was Ricci able to learn the Chinese language?

8. What did Ignatius Loyola encourage the Jesuits to publish in 1559.

9. What did Ricci admire and appreciate in China?

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

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