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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 did Ricci intend to use the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?

2. When Ricci was a missionary in China, what did he Ricci report to Girolamo Costa?

3. In Renaissance Italy, what city was a stop on a pilgrim route from Rome to Lareto?

4. When Ricci was a missionary in 16th century China, what was one way he used music to impress the Chinese?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the Chinese receive the ideas of Western science?

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

4. According to "Chapter Seven, The Third Picture: The Men of Sodom", what is the image in the third picture?

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

6. According to "Chapter Six, The Third Image: Profit and Harvest", what was the third Chinese character that Ricci use and what did he do with it?

7. On what did the Jesuits depend financially?

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

9. What did the second picture depict?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sexual immorality caused Ricci great concern. Discuss the ways in which both the Jesuits and the Chinese challenged Ricci's view of sexual morality and the ways he chose to combat it.

Essay Topic 2

Ricci quotes lines from Virgil's "Aeneid" in a letter to his school friend Giulio Fuligatti. Explain the quotation and discuss its meaning as it applies to Matteo Ricci's life.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Ricci's attitude towards money and the way his attitude reflected or disagreed with the Jesuit philosophy about money and profit.

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