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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three, The First Picture: The Apostle in the Waves.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did this person who appeared in Ricci's most significant dream tell him to do?
(a) Establish a mission in Shanghai.
(b) Set up an orphanage in Zhaoqing.
(c) Begin preaching in Peking.
(d) Learn the Chinese language.

3. 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 small and narrow space.
(b) Find a large and wide space.
(c) Find a quiet and small space.
(d) Find a clean and dry space.

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

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

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. Who ruled China from 1573 to 1620, almost the entire time Ricci was there?

4. When the king died without an heir, what effect did this have?

5. Matteo Ricci lived during which period of time?

(see the answer key)

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