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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. How can Ricci's use of mnemonic devices be understood?
(a) As part of an anti-Jesuit movement to prevent Chinese conversions.
(b) As part of an anti-Christian movement.
(c) As part of a long Christian tradition of missionaries confronting purported magicians.
(d) As part of an encroachment of Western civilization on Asian cultures.

2. Who ruled China from 1573 to 1620, almost the entire time Ricci was there?
(a) Emperor Zhuzong.
(b) Emperor Kwan.
(c) Emperor Yu.
(d) Emperor Wanli.

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

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

5. Who defended the use of these mnemonic devices as part of the moral regulation of memory?
(a) Rabelais.
(b) Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Cornelius Agrippa.
(d) Erasmus.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Ricci compare a ship's pilot?

2. Toward the end of his life, what irony struck Ricci about the Chinese?

3. From whom did Ricci devise this memory method?

4. According to "Chapter Two, The First Image: The Warriors", what does the Chinese idiograph "wu" symbolize?

5. Where was the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves" to be placed?

(see the answer key)

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