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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are mnemonic devices?
(a) Recording tools to transcribe notes.
(b) Ways to remember by association.
(c) Auditory tools to improve people's hearing.
(d) Ways to improve public speaking.

2. Who ruled China from 1573 to 1620, almost the entire time Ricci was there?
(a) Emperor Wanli.
(b) Emperor Zhuzong.
(c) Emperor Kwan.
(d) Emperor Yu.

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

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

5. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what concerned some Jesuits, including Ricci?
(a) The Renaissance.
(b) The Reformation.
(c) The Inquisition.
(d) The Counter-Reformation.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. From whom did Ricci devise this memory method?

4. According to "Chapter Two, The First Image: The Warriors", what does the Chinese idiograph "wu" symbolize?

5. During the trip in 1578, what did the ships on which Ricci was riding pick up in Mozambique?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the new version of the story associated with the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves" that Ricci gave Cheng Dayue?

2. Why does Matteo Ricci agree to use his mnemonic techniques to help Governor Lu's sons?

3. Describe the first picture, "The Apostle in the Waves" that Ricci used to instruct the Chinese.

4. What had the Japanese done to make Ricci's life difficult?

5. During the 16th century, why did the Jesuits send two copies of their letters on two different passages when they wrote home?

6. According to the author Jonathan D. Spence, how did the Chinese view the use of mnemonic devices?

7. Describe the map that Ricci has printed in 1602.

8. What were the names of the ships during Ricci's trip from Lisbon to Goa in 1578?

9. Does the author know with certainty where Ricci picked up the idea of mnemonic devices?

10. What did Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, think of mnemonic devices?

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