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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six, The Third Image: Profit and Harvest.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When they were in their missions during the 16th century, why did Ricci and Ruggieri often want money?
(a) To buy Bibles for the fifteen Christian converts.
(b) To pay for transportation for the Chinese to come to the city.
(c) To procure the proper gifts for the Chinese to impress them.
(d) To travel outside the major cities to preach to the people in the countryside.

4. During the Renaissance, what was the focus of concern by the Jesuit missionaries in India?
(a) Jewish repression of Jesuit missionaries.
(b) Government restriction on foreign missionaries.
(c) Buddhist priests and anti-Christian sentiment.
(d) Indigenous Christians and Nestorian heresy.

5. To what does Ricci compare a ship's pilot?
(a) The soul of the crew.
(b) The mind of God.
(c) The eyes of the Emperor.
(d) The hand of God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the charismatic Jesuit missionary, which group was amenable, "soft" like women, ambivalent about war and ready to do what they were told?

3. During the Renaissance, what was one element missing in the training of Jesuits while in Rome?

4. Who was the college teacher in Rome that maintained a correspondence with Ricci after Ricci left school?

5. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", which one of these does NOT describe Governor Lu?

(see the answer key)

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