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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. What caused marine accidents during the 16th century in the Chinese seas?
(a) Rocky harbors and pirates.
(b) Poorly packed explosives.
(c) Poorly constructed ships.
(d) Overloading of goods, peoples and services.

2. Who were the "huihui of the cross" during the 16th century when Ricci was in China?
(a) Nestorians.
(b) Muslims.
(c) Jews.
(d) Buddhists.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the Renaissance, what was the focus of concern by the Jesuit missionaries in India?

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

3. Where did Ricci spend five years as an apprentice?

4. How did the Chinese people respond to Ricci's mnemonic abilities?

5. What were the meanings of the split idiographs of "wu"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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