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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight, The Fourth Image: The Fourth Picture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following did the Jesuits NOT do on the trip in 1578?
(a) Prepared meals for the passengers.
(b) Practiced their devotions.
(c) Tended to the sick.
(d) Heard confessions every eight days.

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

3. When Ricci was a 16th century missionary in China, how did he use the event of the Inquisition when teaching the Chinese?
(a) He compared the event to Judas' betrayal of Jesus to the Romans.
(b) He compared the event to conflict in China between the Buddhists and the emperor.
(c) He compared the event to the story of Sodom and its moral extremes.
(d) He compared the event to the persecution of Jews around the world.

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

5. Where was Ricci born?
(a) In Macerata, Italy.
(b) In Lisbon, Portugal.
(c) In Florence, Italy.
(d) In Peking, China.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ricci change the meaning of the ideograph "yao"?

2. What was the new image of the idiograph of "wu"?

3. On what ship did Ricci travel in 1578?

4. What were the meanings of the split idiographs of "wu"?

5. During the 16th century, how did the way Ignatius Loyola wanted students to learn affect Matteo Ricci?

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