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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. When the king died without an heir, what effect did this have?
(a) Increased the prestige of Christendom when missionary work was important.
(b) Decreased the interest in exploration to the New World.
(c) Decreased the prestige of Christendom when missionary work was important.
(d) Increased the influence on Protestants on the Portuguese.

2. What is the subject of Ricci's book that he wrote while in Nanching?
(a) Manners and behavior in Western cultures.
(b) Agriculture and animal husbandry in the Chinese countryside.
(c) The teachings of the great members of Western civilization.
(d) An explanation of the Christian Bible.

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?
(a) The Indians.
(b) The Mongols.
(c) The Chinese.
(d) The Japanese.

4. In what other way were mnemonic devices used during the 16th century?
(a) To help explorers navigate to the New World.
(b) To retain substantial scientific, mathematical, and musical information of the Renaissance.
(c) To learn the theologies of the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian religions.
(d) To convert other non-Christians around the world.

5. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", how did Ricci believe that humans could remember anything?
(a) By reciting over and over.
(b) By associating a memory with an image.
(c) By singing a song about the thing to be remembered.
(d) By writing the thing to be remembered over and over.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", to what religious order did Matteo Ricci belong?

2. What were the meanings of the split idiographs of "wu"?

3. From whom did Ricci devise this memory method?

4. According to Ricci, how is the size of the memory palace determined?

5. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", which one of these does NOT describe Governor Lu?

(see the answer key)

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