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

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

3. During the trip in 1578, what did the ships on which Ricci was riding pick up in Mozambique?
(a) Crates of Bibles for the missions.
(b) Nuns and orphans bound for Portugal.
(c) Dysentery and malaria.
(d) Several hundred slaves.

4. From whom did Ricci devise this memory method?
(a) The Renaissance playwright Christopher Marlowe.
(b) The Greek poet Aristotle.
(c) The Roman poet Ovid.
(d) The Greek poet Simonides.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the charismatic missionary to India who aimed to inspire the Asian missions of the Jesuits?

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

3. On what ship did Ricci travel in 1578?

4. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what tenet was similar to the three major religions of China?

5. How did Ricci learn more about China?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ricci use Chinese ideograph did Ricci use for his first image?

2. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what is the second idiograph that Ricci chose for a memory image and why did he choose it?

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

4. Describe the training of Matteo Ricci before he arrived in China.

5. What experiences led to Ricci's skill in drawing maps?

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

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

8. What were Ricci's rules for picking a location to store the information?

9. How and why did Ricci display his spirit of ecumenism in China?

10. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", what was the size of the Memory Palace that Matteo Ricci used to teach the Chinese people?

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