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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 this person who appeared in Ricci's most significant dream tell him to do?
(a) Establish a mission in Shanghai.
(b) Set up an orphanage in Zhaoqing.
(c) Begin preaching in Peking.
(d) Learn the Chinese language.

2. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what was significant about the Chinese ideograph "yao"?
(a) It had five different meanings.
(b) It was not used by many Chinese.
(c) It was easy to translate but difficult to write.
(d) It was easy to write but difficult to translate.

3. What did Matteo Ricci teach the Chinese people?
(a) How to build better villages.
(b) How to read the Bible.
(c) How to build a memory palace.
(d) How to speak English.

4. What are mnemonic devices?
(a) Auditory tools to improve people's hearing.
(b) Recording tools to transcribe notes.
(c) Ways to improve public speaking.
(d) Ways to remember by association.

5. About what did Ricci's Chinese Christian converts complain?
(a) Hostility from other Chinese.
(b) Inability to understand the papacy.
(c) Repression from the government.
(d) Lack of Christian works, such as the Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the 16th century, how did the way Ignatius Loyola wanted students to learn affect Matteo Ricci?

2. How was the relationship between true religious experience and magical powers perceived during the 16th century?

3. On what ship did Ricci travel in 1578?

4. Who was the charismatic missionary to India who aimed to inspire the Asian missions of the Jesuits?

5. During the Renaissance, how did Ignatius Loyola want students to learn?

(see the answer key)

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