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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. According to "Chapter Three, the First Picture: The Apostle in the Waves", to whom did Ricci give the first picture?
(a) Kwok Sing.
(b) Dayue Cheng.
(c) Cheng Dayue.
(d) Kim Suk.

2. With whom were Macerata's rural poor fighting?
(a) Landowners.
(b) The Catholic Church.
(c) City officials.
(d) Bandits.

3. In Ricci's version of the story of the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves," how did he depict Jesus?
(a) As the son of God.
(b) As a charismatic leader.
(c) As a wise man.
(d) As a lowly carpenter.

4. What is the subject of Ricci's book that he wrote while in Nanching?
(a) Manners and behavior in Western cultures.
(b) An explanation of the Christian Bible.
(c) Agriculture and animal husbandry in the Chinese countryside.
(d) The teachings of the great members of Western civilization.

5. From whom did Ricci devise this memory method?
(a) The Greek poet Aristotle.
(b) The Renaissance playwright Christopher Marlowe.
(c) The Greek poet Simonides.
(d) The Roman poet Ovid.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what other way were mnemonic devices used during the 16th century?

2. When Ricci was a missionary, what religion was he startled to learn was practiced by some Chinese?

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

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

5. Where are the memory palaces that Ricci creates to be built?

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