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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chinese, what is a "huihui"?
(a) A Chinese Christian convert.
(b) A Muslim person as well as Jews and Nestorian Christians in China.
(c) A native Chinese who follows Confucius.
(d) A Western woman who dresses like a Chinese woman.

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

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

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

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

6. What kind of map did Ricci print in 1602?
(a) A map of China divided by provinces.
(b) A more accurate map with Western political organizations and locates of the Holy Land and holy cities.
(c) A world map with locations of Jesuit missionaries.
(d) A map of China noting the religions practiced in different areas.

7. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what tenet was similar to the three major religions of China?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Pythagorean.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Islam.

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

9. What were the meanings of the split idiographs of "wu"?
(a) One piece represented "spear" and the other piece represented "to stop/prevent."
(b) One piece represented "diplomacy" and the other piece represented "to practice."
(c) One piece represented "weapon" and the other piece represented "to lay down arms."
(d) One piece represented "peace" and the other piece represented "to bring about."

10. What did the Chinese seem to prefer in its military?
(a) Diplomacy and nationalism over expansion.
(b) Actual combat over pomp and circumstance.
(c) Pomp and circumstance over actual combat.
(d) Expansion over diplomacy and nationalism.

11. With whom were Macerata's rural poor fighting?
(a) Landowners.
(b) City officials.
(c) The Catholic Church.
(d) Bandits.

12. When Ricci was a missionary, what religion was he startled to learn was practiced by some Chinese?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Protestantism.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Mormonism.

13. Toward the end of his life, what irony struck Ricci about the Chinese?
(a) The Chinese feared foreign nations despite having a large population and large army.
(b) The Chinese were better educated than the threatening nations.
(c) The Chinese in the cities embraced Catholicism before the people in the rural areas.
(d) The Chinese sought to dominate smaller surrounding countries.

14. According to "Chapter Two, The First Image: The Warriors", what does the Chinese idiograph "wu" symbolize?
(a) Stop or prevent.
(b) Clean and dry.
(c) Spear.
(d) War.

15. In his book of memory, where did Ricci places the four memory images?
(a) In his garden.
(b) In his kitchen.
(c) In his bedroom.
(d) In his reception hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did the Jesuits NOT do on the trip in 1578?

2. About what were the Jesuit missions in India concerned?

3. How long had the Alaleona and Pellicani families been fighting when Ricci was a child in Macerata?

4. How many Christians were in the Japanese army during the 16th century?

5. Where had Ricci traveled throughout 1578?

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