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

2. In Renaissance Italy, what city was a stop on a pilgrim route from Rome to Lareto?
(a) Tuscany.
(b) Venice.
(c) Macerata.
(d) Genoa.

3. Who criticized the use of "monstrous" images for causing "madness and frenzy instead of profound and sure memory"?
(a) Ludolfus of Saxony.
(b) Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Cornelius Agrippa.
(d) Ignatius Loyola.

4. How many pictures are in the series of prints that made up the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

5. In the 16th century who was Gian Pietro Maffei?
(a) An Italian papal courier who corresponded regularly with Ricci.
(b) A Spanish journalist who wrote reports back to the Western world.
(c) A Jesuit historian who would work with Ricci to lift his spirits.
(d) The Jesuit prefect who sent Ricci to China and visited him there yearly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can Ricci's use of mnemonic devices be understood?

2. What was the memory image that Ricci associated with the altered second image?

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

4. Before Ricci was a missionary in 16th century China, who was thought to have engaged in sexual misconduct while in China?

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

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