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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. What were Ricci's rules for picking an area in the memory palace to store the new image of the idiograph "wu"?
(a) Find a quiet and small space.
(b) Find a large and wide space.
(c) Find a small and narrow space.
(d) Find a clean and dry space.

2. Ricci grew up in Macerata during a period of what?
(a) Natural disasters.
(b) Disease.
(c) Peace.
(d) War and violence.

3. Whom did Ricci meet in Lisbon, Portugal, who died without an heir?
(a) King John III of France.
(b) King Sebastian of Portugal.
(c) King Edward of England.
(d) King Ferdinand of Spain.

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

5. Who was the charismatic missionary to India who aimed to inspire the Asian missions of the Jesuits?
(a) Louis Pellicano.
(b) Francesco Martines.
(c) Alessandro Valignano.
(d) Ignatius Loyola.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ricci use the first four memory images in his memory palace?

2. In what year did Ricci join the Jesuits?

3. What did Ricci do to the first Chinese idiograph?

4. From whom did Ricci devise this memory method?

5. How long had the Chinese practiced the art of splitting their idiographs?

(see the answer key)

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