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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. Who defended the use of these mnemonic devices as part of the moral regulation of memory?
(a) Thomas Aquinas.
(b) Erasmus.
(c) Rabelais.
(d) Cornelius Agrippa.

2. 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.

3. Who criticized the use of "monstrous" images for causing "madness and frenzy instead of profound and sure memory"?
(a) Ignatius Loyola.
(b) Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Cornelius Agrippa.
(d) Ludolfus of Saxony.

4. 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 "peace" and the other piece represented "to bring about."
(d) One piece represented "weapon" and the other piece represented "to lay down arms."

5. 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) God.
(b) Peter the Apostle.
(c) Mary.
(d) Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "Chapter Three, the First Picture: The Apostle in the Waves", why did Ricci alter the original Biblical story?

2. According to Ricci, which one of these is NOT a way in which memory palaces can be built?

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. What was the new image of the idiograph of "wu"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Spence, how did Ricci use the four images and four Chinese characters?

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

3. Where was the Memory Palace to be built?

4. Why did the death of King Sebastian of Portugal cause concern for the Jesuits?

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

6. Who was Alessandro Valignano and what did he think about the possibility of Asians and Japanese converting to Christianity?

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

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

9. About what did Ricci's Chinese Christian converts complain?

10. What were conditions in Ricci's home city of Macerata when he was a young boy?

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