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

2. During the Renaissance, who made up the groups in China that "pledged themselves to lives of heightened spiritual service"?
(a) Groups of Jesuit nuns.
(b) Religious groups of Chinese men and women.
(c) Religious groups of Chinese missionaries.
(d) Groups of Jesuits priests.

3. According to "Chapter Eight, The Fourth Image: The Fourth Picture", who is Girolamo Costa?
(a) A friend of Ricci who entered the Jesuit order within a year of Ricci.
(b) An Italian government official who speaks against Ricci.
(c) A young seminarian working with Ricci in China.
(d) The leader of the Jesuit order in Italy.

4. What did Ricci NOT like about the Confucian moral system when he was a missionary in the 16th century?
(a) Its subjugation of children.
(b) Its ideas about the role of women.
(c) Its pantheism.
(d) Its approval of animal sacrifice.

5. From whom was Macerata in constant danger from attack?
(a) The Muslims.
(b) The Ottomans.
(c) The Papal Police.
(d) The Turks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who criticized the use of "monstrous" images for causing "madness and frenzy instead of profound and sure memory"?

2. What is the subject of Ricci's book that he wrote while in Nanching?

3. During the Renaissance, what did Ignatius Loyola encourage Jesuits to do with their possessions?

4. Who defended the use of these mnemonic devices as part of the moral regulation of memory?

5. When Ricci was a missionary in 16th century China, what did he place on the altar of the little Shaozhou Church?

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