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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During the Renaissance, what did some believe was the purpose of these groups in China that "pledged themselves to lives of heightened spiritual service"?
(a) Social clubs to entertain wealthy Chinese businessmen.
(b) Political organizations to unionize the Chinese workers.
(c) Clandestine recruitment organizations for the Jesuits.
(d) Government infiltration of religious groups.

3. How long had the Chinese practiced the art of splitting their idiographs?
(a) Two thousand years.
(b) Fifty years.
(c) They had never done it.
(d) One thousand years.

4. What was the memory image that Ricci associated with the altered second image?
(a) A farmer at planting time, hoeing in a field.
(b) A farmer's market full of local fruit and vegetables for sale.
(c) A farmer heading to market with a wagon full of crops.
(d) A farmer holding a sickle, ready to cut the crops in the field.

5. How did the Jesuits ensure that their messages were delivered back and forth during the 16th century?
(a) They sent one across the desert and one across the sea.
(b) They send two copies of their letters via two different sea passages.
(c) They sent one copy over land and one copy over sea.
(d) They sent one copy eastward and one copy westward.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves."

2. Who was the charismatic missionary to India who aimed to inspire the Asian missions of the Jesuits?

3. What was the meaning of the third idiograph chosen by Ricci?

4. Who or what urged penalties on Christians who participated with the Japanese in the Japanese use of financial tricks to make money during the 16th century?

5. Where did Ricci place the new picture of the fourth idiograph "hao" in the Memory Palace?

(see the answer key)

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