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

2. According to "Chapter Two, The First Image: The Warriors", what does the Chinese idiograph "wu" symbolize?
(a) War.
(b) Stop or prevent.
(c) Spear.
(d) Clean and dry.

3. What were the meanings of the split idiographs of "wu"?
(a) One piece represented "peace" and the other piece represented "to bring about."
(b) One piece represented "diplomacy" and the other piece represented "to practice."
(c) One piece represented "weapon" and the other piece represented "to lay down arms."
(d) One piece represented "spear" and the other piece represented "to stop/prevent."

4. What did Ricci do to the first Chinese idiograph?
(a) Cut it into three different idiographs.
(b) Combined it with the idiograph for peace.
(c) Cut it into four different idiographs.
(d) Cut it diagonally.

5. When Ricci became a missionary in China during the 16th century, what was wrong with the science taught to the Chinese?
(a) It led to many disasters to the environment.
(b) It disregarded Western discoveries and advances.
(c) It lacked fundamental principles.
(d) It focused on outdated principles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did this person who appeared in Ricci's most significant dream tell him to do?

2. How long had the Chinese practiced the art of splitting their idiographs?

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

4. How long did Christopher Plantin take to write his Bible, the pinnacle of the Counter-Reformation, in the 16th century?

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

(see the answer key)

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