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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five, The Second Picture: The Road to Emmaus.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long had the Chinese practiced the art of splitting their idiographs?
(a) Two thousand years.
(b) They had never done it.
(c) Fifty years.
(d) One thousand years.

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

4. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", when Ricci cut the idiograph in half horizontally, what did the two halves mean?
(a) The upper half meant "man," and the bottom half meant "east."
(b) The upper half meant "west," and the bottom half meant "woman."
(c) The upper half meant "woman," and the bottom half meant "west."
(d) The upper half meant "east," and the bottom half meant "man."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what tenet was similar to the three major religions of China?

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

3. To what does Ricci compare a ship's pilot?

4. How did the characters look in the second picture "The Road to Emmaus" that Ricci showed Cheng Dayue?

5. What did Ricci realize about his attempt at ecumenism when he was a missionary in China?

(see the answer key)

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