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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many pictures are in the series of prints that made up the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

2. When Ricci became a missionary in China during the 16th century, what was he able to do in five months?
(a) Complete his Jesuit curriculum.
(b) Memorize the first five books of the Bible.
(c) Memorize almost all Chinese idiographs.
(d) Speak Chinese, Latin and Greek fluently.

3. What did Ricci help the Chinese to see with this second picture "The Road to Emmaus"?
(a) The Chinese will understand the power of Jesus to perform miracles.
(b) The Chinese will see two men accepting the resurrection of God and the third preparing for His return to heaven.
(c) The Chinese will see the wonder of the resurrection and its effect on Christ's followers.
(d) The Chinese will understand the role of salvation in the lives of Christians.

4. What were the meanings of the two new idiographs made when Ricci split the second idiograph down the middle?
(a) Grain and blade.
(b) Gain and benefit.
(c) Profit and loss.
(d) Blade and knife.

5. What was the meaning of the third idiograph chosen by Ricci?
(a) Profit.
(b) Loss.
(c) Gain.
(d) Benefit.

6. Who was arrested, beaten and imprisoned for trying to make money by keeping tribute given to the guards at the Xiangshan border during the 16th century when Ricci was in China??
(a) A cook employed by Matteo Ricci.
(b) A courier of Jesuit letters.
(c) Matteo Ricci.
(d) Ignatius Loyola.

7. How did the characters look in the second picture "The Road to Emmaus" that Ricci showed Cheng Dayue?
(a) Although they are in intense conversation, they seem still and frozen.
(b) Christ is shown in agony as his mother weeps and is supported in her grief by the two apostles.
(c) The two disciples stand at the opening of the tomb and look frightened.
(d) The six apostles are smiling as they hand out the food.

8. During the 16th century, how did Yu Chunxi react to Ricci's criticism of the Buddhist belief that Ricci was particularly hostile?
(a) Yu Chunxi encouraged a boycott of Ricci's church.
(b) Yu Chunxi sent soldiers to destroy the mission.
(c) Yu Chunxi visited Ricci and debated the belief in front of a crowd of Buddhists and Chinese Christians.
(d) Yu Chunxi complained in a letter.

9. Who was the college teacher in Rome that maintained a correspondence with Ricci after Ricci left school?
(a) Thomas Aquinas.
(b) Ignatius.
(c) Clavius.
(d) Augustine.

10. What did the fourth ideograph, "hao," represent in the Chinese language during the 16th century?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Chastity.
(c) Obedience.
(d) Goodness.

11. Why did Ricci alter the story of the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?
(a) To communicate the idea that God is merciful.
(b) To communicate the idea that man is sinful.
(c) To communicate the idea that sin brings God's judgment.
(d) To communicate the idea that woman tempts man into sin.

12. What did Ricci deplore that was widespread in Peking during the 16th century?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Prostitution.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Poverty.

13. During the Renaissance, who made up the groups in China that "pledged themselves to lives of heightened spiritual service"?
(a) Groups of Jesuit nuns.
(b) Religious groups of Chinese missionaries.
(c) Religious groups of Chinese men and women.
(d) Groups of Jesuits priests.

14. Why did Ricci wish he had more money during the 16th century when he was in China?
(a) To bribe government officials to leave his mission alone.
(b) To build a new church for his Christian converts.
(c) To buy books to further his plans for the conversion of the Chinese people.
(d) To provide more financial resources to the impoverished Chinese farmers.

15. When Ricci became a missionary in China during the 16th century, who was the scholar from Shanghai that converted to Christianity?
(a) Li Zhizao.
(b) Cheng Dayou.
(c) Qu Rukui.
(d) Xu Guangqi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first picture depict in the series of prints that made up the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?

2. When Ricci was a missionary in 16th century China, what did he place on the altar of the little Shaozhou Church?

3. During the Renaissance, on what did the Jesuits depend financially to support themselves and their missionaries?

4. What was the memory image that Ricci associated with the altered second image?

5. How did Ricci use the concept of "ly" into his music when he was a Chinese missionary in the 16th century?

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