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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 are the memory palaces that Ricci creates to be built?
(a) In the people's towns.
(b) In the people's minds.
(c) In the children's homes.
(d) In the children's hospitals.

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

3. In the 16th century, who announced his plan to conquer Korea and overthrow the Chinese government?
(a) Amemune Takatsugi.
(b) Hideyoshi Toyotomi.
(c) Takama no Harahiro.
(d) Tenno Heika.

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

5. From whom did Ricci devise this memory method?
(a) The Greek poet Simonides.
(b) The Roman poet Ovid.
(c) The Renaissance playwright Christopher Marlowe.
(d) The Greek poet Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Matteo Ricci lived during which period of time?

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

(see the answer key)

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