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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 did the Chinese seem to prefer in its military?
(a) Actual combat over pomp and circumstance.
(b) Expansion over diplomacy and nationalism.
(c) Pomp and circumstance over actual combat.
(d) Diplomacy and nationalism over expansion.

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

3. Who tried to stop the violence in the city of Macerata while Ricci was growing up there?
(a) Clergy and city fathers.
(b) Italian soldiers.
(c) Macerata police.
(d) Local sheriff and deputies.

4. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", which one of these does NOT describe Governor Lu?
(a) He was employed high in the Ming dynasty bureaucracy.
(b) He was preparing his songs for their bureaucratic examinations.
(c) He forbade the Chinese people to listen to Ricci.
(d) He was the head of one of the highest families in Chinese society.

5. What are mnemonic devices?
(a) Ways to improve public speaking.
(b) Recording tools to transcribe notes.
(c) Auditory tools to improve people's hearing.
(d) Ways to remember by association.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", how did Ricci believe that humans could remember anything?

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

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