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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two, The First Image: The Warriors.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Ricci born?
(a) In Macerata, Italy.
(b) In Lisbon, Portugal.
(c) In Peking, China.
(d) In Florence, Italy.

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

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

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

5. How did the Chinese people respond to Ricci's mnemonic abilities?
(a) They were frightened.
(b) They were not impressed.
(c) They were indifferent.
(d) They were stunned.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ricci leave Macerata to study in Rome?

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

3. According to the charismatic Jesuit missionary, which group was amenable, "soft" like women, ambivalent about war and ready to do what they were told?

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

5. Whom did Ricci meet in Lisbon, Portugal, who died without an heir?

(see the answer key)

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