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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Matteo Ricci teach the Chinese people?
(a) How to build better villages.
(b) How to read the Bible.
(c) How to build a memory palace.
(d) How to speak English.

3. When did Ricci leave Macerata to study in Rome?
(a) 1607.
(b) 1658.
(c) 1568.
(d) 1574.

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

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

6. Describe the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves."
(a) Apostle Judas betraying Jesus.
(b) Saul being stuck down on the road to Damascus.
(c) Jesus healing the lepers.
(d) Apostle Peter trying to walk on water in the Sea of Galilee.

7. What was the new image of the idiograph of "wu"?
(a) A single image of a warrior ready to strike an enemy with his spear and a second warrior who grabs the first warrior's wrist to prevent him from striking the blow.
(b) A single image of a warrior ready to strike an enemy with a spear and a second warrior who cringes in fear awaiting the fatal blow.
(c) An image of two warriors facing each other, hands extended in peace with broken spears at their feet.
(d) A single image of a warrior ready to strike an enemy with a spear and a second warrior poised with a spear to counter-attack.

8. 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 quiet and small space.
(b) Find a small and narrow space.
(c) Find a large and wide space.
(d) Find a clean and dry space.

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

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

11. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", how did Ricci believe that humans could remember anything?
(a) By writing the thing to be remembered over and over.
(b) By reciting over and over.
(c) By singing a song about the thing to be remembered.
(d) By associating a memory with an image.

12. Who was the charismatic missionary to India who aimed to inspire the Asian missions of the Jesuits?
(a) Louis Pellicano.
(b) Francesco Martines.
(c) Alessandro Valignano.
(d) Ignatius Loyola.

13. 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) Decreased the interest in exploration to the New World.
(d) Increased the prestige of Christendom when missionary work was important.

14. How can Ricci's use of mnemonic devices be understood?
(a) As part of an anti-Christian movement.
(b) As part of a long Christian tradition of missionaries confronting purported magicians.
(c) As part of an anti-Jesuit movement to prevent Chinese conversions.
(d) As part of an encroachment of Western civilization on Asian cultures.

15. About what were the Jesuit missions in India concerned?
(a) Muslim assault.
(b) Illiteracy.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Influx of foreigners.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the relationship between true religious experience and magical powers perceived during the 16th century?

2. How did Ricci learn more about China?

3. According to "Chapter Three, the First Picture: The Apostle in the Waves", what was/were a destructive and common part of life in China?

4. How did Ricci use the first four memory images in his memory palace?

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

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