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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 were the meanings of the two new idiographs made when Ricci split the second idiograph down the middle?
(a) Gain and benefit.
(b) Blade and knife.
(c) Profit and loss.
(d) Grain and blade.

2. When Ricci became a missionary in China during the 16th century, who was the scholar from Shanghai that converted to Christianity?
(a) Cheng Dayou.
(b) Li Zhizao.
(c) Qu Rukui.
(d) Xu Guangqi.

3. During the Renaissance, on what did the Jesuits depend financially to support themselves and their missionaries?
(a) The donations of generous Catholics who believed in the missionary work of the Jesuits.
(b) The support of the Catholic Church in Rome.
(c) The success of international trade.
(d) The profit from the books of Jesuit sermons.

4. What type of life was flourishing during the 16th century when Ricci was in China?
(a) Industrialization.
(b) Chinese imperialism.
(c) Commercial life.
(d) Public service.

5. According to Chapter Seven, The Third Picture: The Men of Sodom, what is the subject of the series of prints that made up third picture "The Men of Sodom"?
(a) John the Baptist's life.
(b) Lot's life.
(c) The Apostle Peter's life.
(d) Mary's life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the college teacher in Rome that maintained a correspondence with Ricci after Ricci left school?

3. What did the fourth ideograph, "hao," represent in the Chinese language during the 16th century?

4. When Ricci divided the fourth ideograph, "hao," what was the new meaning?

5. According to "Chapter Eight, The Fourth Image: The Fourth Picture", what doctrine were the Chinese not ready to understand when Ricci was a missionary in 16th century China?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ricci use this third picture in his work with the Chinese?

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

3. What did Ricci admire and appreciate in China?

4. According to "Chapter Eight, The Fourth Image: The Fourth Picture", what was the relationship between Matteo Ricci and Girolamo Costa?

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

6. What did the second picture depict?

7. On what did the Jesuits depend financially?

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

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

10. Where in the Memory Palace did Ricci place this last image?

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