View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine, Inside the Palace.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two moral extremes were seen in Rome during the mid-16th century?
(a) Celibacy and debauchery.
(b) Generosity and poverty.
(c) Piety and degradation.
(d) Democracy and slavery.

2. What were Ricci's rules for picking an area in the memory palace to store the new image of the idiograph "wu"?
(a) Find a large and wide space.
(b) Find a small and narrow space.
(c) Find a clean and dry space.
(d) Find a quiet and small space.

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

4. How long did Christopher Plantin take to write his Bible, the pinnacle of the Counter-Reformation, in the 16th century?
(a) Ten years.
(b) One year.
(c) Five years.
(d) Twenty years.

5. Where did Ricci place the new picture of the fourth idiograph "hao" in the Memory Palace?
(a) In the barn just outside the back door.
(b) In the southwest corner of the garden.
(c) In the nursery on the second floor.
(d) In the southwest corner of the reception hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what did Ricci's Chinese Christian converts complain?

2. Toward the end of his life, what irony struck Ricci about the Chinese?

3. According to "Chapter Nine: Inside the Palace", what did Ricci smell that curled up around the triptych that he placed upon the altar in Juyung?

4. What does the first picture depict in the series of prints that made up the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?

5. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what concerned some Jesuits, including Ricci?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 400 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample