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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 long had the Chinese practiced the art of splitting their idiographs?
(a) Fifty years.
(b) They had never done it.
(c) One thousand years.
(d) Two thousand years.

2. To whom did the Chinese emperor leave many matters to be handled?
(a) Administrative eunuchs.
(b) Elected representatives.
(c) His appointed cabinet.
(d) Military generals.

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

4. According to the charismatic Jesuit missionary, whose mixture of "cruelty, dignity, depravity, and hypocrisy" would prevent them from truly living the faith?
(a) The Japanese.
(b) The Chinese.
(c) The Africans.
(d) The Indians.

5. How did Ricci learn more about China?
(a) Through studying Chinese religions.
(b) Through his journeys across its rivers, lakes and canals.
(c) Through reading books and poetry of famous Chinese authors.
(d) Through his seminary work with the Jesuits.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were Ricci's rules for picking an area in the memory palace to store the new image of the idiograph "wu"?

3. Who tried to stop the violence in the city of Macerata while Ricci was growing up there?

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

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

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