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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. According to "Chapter Three, the First Picture: The Apostle in the Waves", to whom did Ricci give the first picture?
(a) Cheng Dayue.
(b) Kwok Sing.
(c) Kim Suk.
(d) Dayue Cheng.

2. According to "Chapter Three, the First Picture: The Apostle in the Waves", when Ricci travels from Nanjing to Nanchang, who appears in his most significant dream?
(a) Mary.
(b) God.
(c) Peter the Apostle.
(d) Jesus.

3. Who criticized the use of "monstrous" images for causing "madness and frenzy instead of profound and sure memory"?
(a) Ignatius Loyola.
(b) Ludolfus of Saxony.
(c) Cornelius Agrippa.
(d) Thomas Aquinas.

4. Toward the end of his life, what irony struck Ricci about the Chinese?
(a) The Chinese were better educated than the threatening nations.
(b) The Chinese feared foreign nations despite having a large population and large army.
(c) The Chinese in the cities embraced Catholicism before the people in the rural areas.
(d) The Chinese sought to dominate smaller surrounding countries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of "Chapter One: Building the Palace", what does the author encourages his readers to do?

2. According to the charismatic Jesuit missionary, whose mixture of "cruelty, dignity, depravity, and hypocrisy" would prevent them from truly living the faith?

3. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what concerned some Jesuits, including Ricci?

4. Who was depicted in the second picture "The Road to Emmaus" that Ricci showed Cheng Dayue?

5. According to "Chapter Five, The Second Picture: The Road to Emmaus", how many people were in the second picture "The Road to Emmaus" that Ricci showed Cheng Dayue?

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