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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight, The Fourth Image: The Fourth Picture.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to "Chapter Three, the First Picture: The Apostle in the Waves", why did Ricci alter the original Biblical story?
(a) He knows the Chinese have read the Bible.
(b) He realizes the Apostle Peter in the picture looks like him.
(c) He wants to see how much the Chinese remember from his other stories.
(d) He needs to get the image to represent Christ's death and atonement.

4. What type of life was flourishing during the 16th century when Ricci was in China?
(a) Industrialization.
(b) Public service.
(c) Commercial life.
(d) Chinese imperialism.

5. During the Renaissance, what did Ignatius Loyola encourage Jesuits to do with their possessions?
(a) Turn them over to the Jesuit order.
(b) Keep them safe.
(c) Sell them.
(d) Share them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ricci use the first four memory images in his memory palace?

2. On what ship did Ricci travel in 1578?

3. Where did Ricci spend five years as an apprentice?

4. What was the new image of the idiograph of "wu"?

5. Which of these was NOT a typical gift that Ricci would give to the Chinese during his time as a missionary in the late 16th century?

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