2. About what did Ricci's Chinese Christian converts complain?
(a) Repression from the government.
(b) Lack of Christian works, such as the Bible.
(c) Hostility from other Chinese.
(d) Inability to understand the papacy.

3. How did Ricci learn more about China?
(a) Through reading books and poetry of famous Chinese authors.
(b) Through studying Chinese religions.
(c) Through his seminary work with the Jesuits.
(d) Through his journeys across its rivers, lakes and canals.

4. When the king died without an heir, what effect did this have?
(a) Increased the influence on Protestants on the Portuguese.
(b) Decreased the prestige of Christendom when missionary work was important.
(c) Increased the prestige of Christendom when missionary work was important.
(d) Decreased the interest in exploration to the New World.

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

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

7. Where did Ricci spend five years as an apprentice?
(a) China.
(b) Japan.
(c) India.
(d) Africa.

8. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", to what religious order did Matteo Ricci belong?
(a) The Franciscans.
(b) The Masons.
(c) The Jesuits.
(d) The Benedictines.

9. Who defended the use of these mnemonic devices as part of the moral regulation of memory?
(a) Rabelais.
(b) Cornelius Agrippa.
(c) Erasmus.
(d) Thomas Aquinas.

10. At the end of "Chapter One: Building the Palace", what does the author encourages his readers to do?
(a) To devise mnemonic devices to keep track of the four images and the four pictures.
(b) To keep an open mind about the connection of magic to theology.
(c) To understand why the Chinese could not understand Christian theology.
(d) To focus on the connections between Ricci's classical influences and his Chinese present.

11. Where are the memory palaces that Ricci creates to be built?
(a) In the children's hospitals.
(b) In the children's homes.
(c) In the people's minds.
(d) In the people's towns.

12. What kind of map did Ricci draw in 1584?
(a) A world map with Chinese names for the countries of the world.
(b) A map of the New World for Jesuit missionaries set to travel there.
(c) A map of the Chinese seas with Westernized names.
(d) A map of Europe with Chinese names.

13. According to the charismatic Jesuit missionary, whose mixture of "cruelty, dignity, depravity, and hypocrisy" would prevent them from truly living the faith?
(a) The Chinese.
(b) The Indians.
(c) The Africans.
(d) The Japanese.

14. What was the meaning of "yao" when Ricci translated the Ten Commandments while he was a missionary in China?
(a) "Shall".
(b) "Covet".
(c) "Not".
(d) "Thou".

15. How did Ricci change the meaning of the ideograph "yao"?
(a) He used it to represent Chinese who resisted conversion.
(b) He used it represent the people of one true God.
(c) He used it to represent female Christian converts.
(d) He used to represent the unification of the three Chinese religions.