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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. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what was significant about the Chinese ideograph "yao"?
(a) It was not used by many Chinese.
(b) It had five different meanings.
(c) It was easy to translate but difficult to write.
(d) It was easy to write but difficult to translate.

2. What were Ricci's rules for picking an area in the memory palace to store the new image of the idiograph "wu"?
(a) Find a clean and dry space.
(b) Find a quiet and small space.
(c) Find a large and wide space.
(d) Find a small and narrow space.

3. According to Ricci, which one of these is NOT a way in which memory palaces can be built?
(a) Drawn from pure imagination and fiction
(b) Drawn from paintings in the emperor's palace.
(c) Drawn from a combination of reality that exists and from pure imagination and fiction.
(d) Drawn from reality that exists.

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

5. What is the subject of Ricci's book that he wrote while in Nanching?
(a) An explanation of the Christian Bible.
(b) The teachings of the great members of Western civilization.
(c) Agriculture and animal husbandry in the Chinese countryside.
(d) Manners and behavior in Western cultures.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Matteo Ricci lived during which period of time?

3. How long did Christopher Plantin take to write his Bible, the pinnacle of the Counter-Reformation, in the 16th century?

4. What effect did the Japanese threat have on Ricci?

5. Where was Ricci born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where was the Memory Palace to be built?

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

10. What were some of the outside influences affecting Ricci's home city of Macerata?

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