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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 was the memory image that Ricci associated with the altered second image?
(a) A farmer's market full of local fruit and vegetables for sale.
(b) A farmer at planting time, hoeing in a field.
(c) A farmer holding a sickle, ready to cut the crops in the field.
(d) A farmer heading to market with a wagon full of crops.

2. According to the author in "Chapter Seven, The Third Picture: The Men of Sodom", what was the reaction to the death of Pope Paul IV in 1559?
(a) Grief and wailing.
(b) Enemies capitalized on the Church's vulnerability.
(c) Joyous rioting in the city.
(d) Jesuits were expelled from foreign missionaries.

3. What did Ricci NOT like about the Confucian moral system when he was a missionary in the 16th century?
(a) Its pantheism.
(b) Its subjugation of children.
(c) Its ideas about the role of women.
(d) Its approval of animal sacrifice.

4. Which one of these is NOT part of the location where Ricci placed the new image in the Memory Palace?
(a) Diagonally across from the two warriors.
(b) To the left of the huihui women.
(c) At the doorway of the garden.
(d) The northwest corner of the reception hall.

5. Before Ricci was a missionary in 16th century China, who was thought to have engaged in sexual misconduct while in China?
(a) Francis Xavier.
(b) Ignatius Loyola.
(c) Matteo Ricci.
(d) Pope Paul IV.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the 16th century, how did Yu Chunxi react to Ricci's criticism of the Buddhist belief that Ricci was particularly hostile?

2. What does the first picture depict in the series of prints that made up the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?

3. How did Ricci use the concept of "ly" into his music when he was a Chinese missionary in the 16th century?

4. When Ricci became a missionary in China during the 16th century, why were the Chinese eager to learn?

5. How did the characters look in the second picture "The Road to Emmaus" that Ricci showed Cheng Dayue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Ricci admire and appreciate in China?

2. Why did Ricci develop mnemonic techniques during his studies in Rome?

3. Who were Ricci's first converts in China?

4. What did the Jesuits in China allow the Chinese to believe about Mary?

5. What was happening to the commercial side of life at this time?

6. What was ironic about the death of Pope Paul IV in 1559?

7. Why did Ricci wish he had more money?

8. Where did Ricci place this third image in the Memory Palace?

9. On what did the Jesuits depend financially?

10. What did Ignatius Loyola encourage the Jesuits to publish in 1559.

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