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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who endangered marine trips during the 16th century in the Chinese seas?
(a) Pirates and privateers.
(b) Mutinous seamen.
(c) Ill-trained captains and navigators.
(d) Greedy ship owners.

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

3. 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 "peace" and the other piece represented "to bring about."
(c) One piece represented "diplomacy" and the other piece represented "to practice."
(d) One piece represented "weapon" and the other piece represented "to lay down arms."

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

5. 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.

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

7. According to "Chapter Three, the First Picture: The Apostle in the Waves", when Ricci travels from Nanjing to Nanchang, who appears in his most significant dream?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Mary.
(c) God.
(d) Peter the Apostle.

8. What did Ricci do to the first Chinese idiograph?
(a) Combined it with the idiograph for peace.
(b) Cut it into four different idiographs.
(c) Cut it diagonally.
(d) Cut it into three different idiographs.

9. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", which one of these does NOT describe Governor Lu?
(a) He forbade the Chinese people to listen to Ricci.
(b) He was employed high in the Ming dynasty bureaucracy.
(c) He was the head of one of the highest families in Chinese society.
(d) He was preparing his songs for their bureaucratic examinations.

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

11. In Ricci's version of the story of the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves," to whom did he compare Jesus?
(a) To Chinese farmers in the countryside.
(b) To Chinese mystics in the temples.
(c) To Chinese sages in their tradition.
(d) To Chinese leaders in the government.

12. According to Ricci, which one of these is NOT a way in which memory palaces can be built?
(a) Drawn from pure imagination and fiction
(b) Drawn from paintings in the emperor's palace.
(c) Drawn from a combination of reality that exists and from pure imagination and fiction.
(d) Drawn from reality that exists.

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

14. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what was significant about the Chinese ideograph "yao"?
(a) It was easy to write but difficult to translate.
(b) It was not used by many Chinese.
(c) It had five different meanings.
(d) It was easy to translate but difficult to write.

15. During the Renaissance, what was one element missing in the training of Jesuits while in Rome?
(a) Instruction in alternative doctrines.
(b) Instruction in similarities among religions.
(c) Instruction in world cultures.
(d) Instruction in world languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 16th century who was Gian Pietro Maffei?

2. Who were the "huihui of the cross" during the 16th century when Ricci was in China?

3. Where are the memory palaces that Ricci creates to be built?

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

5. When the king died without an heir, what effect did this have?

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