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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Matteo Ricci lived during which period of time?
(a) The Medieval Period.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The Enlightenment.
(d) The Reformation.

2. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what concerned some Jesuits, including Ricci?
(a) The Renaissance.
(b) The Counter-Reformation.
(c) The Inquisition.
(d) The Reformation.

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

4. How did the Jesuits ensure that their messages were delivered back and forth during the 16th century?
(a) They sent one across the desert and one across the sea.
(b) They sent one copy over land and one copy over sea.
(c) They send two copies of their letters via two different sea passages.
(d) They sent one copy eastward and one copy westward.

5. In the 16th century, who provided funds to Christopher Plantin to write his Bible?
(a) The people of Antwerp.
(b) King Phillip II of Spain.
(c) King Henry VIII of England.
(d) Emperor Wanli of China.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From whom did Ricci devise this memory method?

3. Who endangered marine trips during the 16th century in the Chinese seas?

4. Who criticized the use of "monstrous" images for causing "madness and frenzy instead of profound and sure memory"?

5. Ricci grew up in Macerata during a period of what?

(see the answer key)

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