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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. Which of the following did the Jesuits NOT do on the trip in 1578?
(a) Prepared meals for the passengers.
(b) Tended to the sick.
(c) Heard confessions every eight days.
(d) Practiced their devotions.

2. According to the charismatic Jesuit missionary, which group was amenable, "soft" like women, ambivalent about war and ready to do what they were told?
(a) The Indians.
(b) The Chinese.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) The Mongols.

3. On this trip in 1578, what skills did Ricci develop?
(a) Mapmaking and navigating through bad weather.
(b) Engineering and sailing.
(c) Foreign languages and painting.
(d) Astronomy and alchemy.

4. How did Ricci use the first four memory images in his memory palace?
(a) To illustrate his strong ability with mnemonic devices.
(b) To help the Chinese understand the life of Christ.
(c) To compare the life of Christ with Confucius.
(d) To impress his superiors with his knowledge of theology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Ricci compare a ship's pilot?

2. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", which one of these does NOT describe Governor Lu?

3. Who tried to stop the violence in the city of Macerata while Ricci was growing up there?

4. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", how did Ricci believe that humans could remember anything?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where was the Memory Palace to be built?

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

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

8. What did Ricci do to the second idiograph and how did the meaning change?

9. What is a "huihui"?

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

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