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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three, The First Picture: The Apostle in the Waves.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Jesuits ensure that their messages were delivered back and forth during the 16th century?
(a) They sent one copy over land and one copy over sea.
(b) They sent one across the desert and one across the sea.
(c) They sent one copy eastward and one copy westward.
(d) They send two copies of their letters via two different sea passages.

2. Whom did Ricci meet in Lisbon, Portugal, who died without an heir?
(a) King John III of France.
(b) King Ferdinand of Spain.
(c) King Edward of England.
(d) King Sebastian of Portugal.

3. Who ruled China from 1573 to 1620, almost the entire time Ricci was there?
(a) Emperor Kwan.
(b) Emperor Wanli.
(c) Emperor Zhuzong.
(d) Emperor Yu.

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

5. Who defended the use of these mnemonic devices as part of the moral regulation of memory?
(a) Thomas Aquinas.
(b) Cornelius Agrippa.
(c) Rabelais.
(d) Erasmus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From whom did Ricci devise this memory method?

3. In what other way were mnemonic devices used during the 16th century?

4. Describe the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves."

5. About what did Ricci's Chinese Christian converts complain?

(see the answer key)

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