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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven, The Third Picture: The Men of Sodom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ricci deplore that was widespread in Peking during the 16th century?
(a) Prostitution.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Poverty.

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

3. About what did Ricci's Chinese Christian converts complain?
(a) Inability to understand the papacy.
(b) Hostility from other Chinese.
(c) Lack of Christian works, such as the Bible.
(d) Repression from the government.

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

5. During the 16th century, why had Pope Paul IV given the Inquisitors in Spain great power?
(a) To vie with the King of Spain for political control.
(b) To seek revenge for the Crucifixion of Christ.
(c) To raise the status of the clergy over the government.
(d) To run out the disbelievers of the Catholic church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ricci alter the story of the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?

2. To what does Ricci compare a ship's pilot?

3. When Ricci became a missionary in China during the 16th century, who was the scholar from Shanghai that converted to Christianity?

4. What two moral extremes were seen in Rome during the mid-16th century?

5. Where was the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves" to be placed?

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