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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) Mutinous seamen.
(b) Ill-trained captains and navigators.
(c) Pirates and privateers.
(d) Greedy ship owners.

2. How long had the Alaleona and Pellicani families been fighting when Ricci was a child in Macerata?
(a) For five years.
(b) For twenty years.
(c) For fifty years.
(d) For ten years.

3. How did Ricci change the meaning of the ideograph "yao"?
(a) He used to represent the unification of the three Chinese religions.
(b) He used it represent the people of one true God.
(c) He used it to represent Chinese who resisted conversion.
(d) He used it to represent female Christian converts.

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

5. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", to what religious order did Matteo Ricci belong?
(a) The Masons.
(b) The Franciscans.
(c) The Benedictines.
(d) The Jesuits.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did the Jesuits ensure that their messages were delivered back and forth during the 16th century?

4. Ricci grew up in Macerata during a period of what?

5. From whom was Macerata in constant danger from attack?

(see the answer key)

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