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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 did Ricci spend five years as an apprentice?
(a) India.
(b) China.
(c) Japan.
(d) Africa.

2. Which war(s) did Ricci study that influenced his ideas about warfare?
(a) The Peloponnesian War.
(b) The Hundred Years War.
(c) The Punic Wars.
(d) The Crusades.

3. According to the charismatic Jesuit missionary, whose mixture of "cruelty, dignity, depravity, and hypocrisy" would prevent them from truly living the faith?
(a) The Chinese.
(b) The Africans.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) The Indians.

4. Who encouraged the use of mnemonic devices as a way to remember the multitude of one's sins?
(a) Rabelais.
(b) Ludolfus Saxony.
(c) Ignatius Loyola.
(d) Plato.

5. What did Ricci do to the first Chinese idiograph?
(a) Cut it into three different idiographs.
(b) Cut it diagonally.
(c) Cut it into four different idiographs.
(d) Combined it with the idiograph for peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom did Ricci devise this memory method?

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

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

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

5. In the 16th century, who announced his plan to conquer Korea and overthrow the Chinese government?

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