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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How was the relationship between true religious experience and magical powers perceived during the 16th century?
2. What were the meanings of the split idiographs of "wu"?
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?
4. What is the subject of Ricci's book that he wrote while in Nanching?
5. Who criticized the use of "monstrous" images for causing "madness and frenzy instead of profound and sure memory"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What had the Japanese done to make Ricci's life difficult?
2. According to Spence, how did Ricci use the four images and four Chinese characters?
3. Who was Alessandro Valignano and what did he think about the possibility of Asians and Japanese converting to Christianity?
4. About what did Ricci's Chinese Christian converts complain?
5. Describe the map that Ricci has printed in 1602.
6. What did Ricci do to the second idiograph and how did the meaning change?
7. How and why did Ricci display his spirit of ecumenism in China?
8. Why did the death of King Sebastian of Portugal cause concern for the Jesuits?
9. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", what was the size of the Memory Palace that Matteo Ricci used to teach the Chinese people?
10. What experiences led to Ricci's skill in drawing maps?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the third picture, Ricci uses the story of Lot and the city of Sodom as an analogy to the rule and death of Pope Paul IV. Using these two characters and their stories, discuss the theme that power and weakness rise and fall together and political abuses of power destroy public morality and respect for tradition.
Essay Topic 2
Matteo Ricci appreciated much about China and the Chinese, including the Confucian moral system. Explain the Confucian moral system and the way it compares and contrasts to another major religion, such as Judaism, Catholicism or Islam.
Essay Topic 3
The Chinese practiced three major religions: Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. In his efforts to Christianize the Chinese, Ricci uses the beliefs from these three religions to show the similarities to his Catholicism. Explain the basics of all four religions and discuss their similarities and differences to each other.
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