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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. Matteo Ricci lived during which period of time?
(a) The Renaissance.
(b) The Reformation.
(c) The Enlightenment.
(d) The Medieval Period.

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 Mongols.
(b) The Indians.
(c) The Chinese.
(d) The Japanese.

3. In what year did Ricci join the Jesuits?
(a) 1583.
(b) 1571.
(c) 1610.
(d) 1552.

4. To whom did the Chinese emperor leave many matters to be handled?
(a) Military generals.
(b) His appointed cabinet.
(c) Elected representatives.
(d) Administrative eunuchs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ruled China from 1573 to 1620, almost the entire time Ricci was there?

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

3. Who criticized the use of "monstrous" images for causing "madness and frenzy instead of profound and sure memory"?

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

5. According to the charismatic Jesuit missionary, whose mixture of "cruelty, dignity, depravity, and hypocrisy" would prevent them from truly living the faith?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Ricci need the new image associated with the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves" to represent?

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

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

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

7. Where was the Memory Palace to be built?

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

9. When Ricci was a missionary in the 16th century, to what did Ricci compare the hand of God to the Chinese?

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

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