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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five, The Second Picture: The Road to Emmaus.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ricci do to the first Chinese idiograph?
(a) Cut it diagonally.
(b) Combined it with the idiograph for peace.
(c) Cut it into four different idiographs.
(d) Cut it into three different idiographs.

2. Who criticized the use of "monstrous" images for causing "madness and frenzy instead of profound and sure memory"?
(a) Ignatius Loyola.
(b) Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Ludolfus of Saxony.
(d) Cornelius Agrippa.

3. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", how did Ricci believe that humans could remember anything?
(a) By singing a song about the thing to be remembered.
(b) By associating a memory with an image.
(c) By reciting over and over.
(d) By writing the thing to be remembered over and over.

4. At what was Ricci particularly adept during his studies in Rome during the Renaissance that helped him later with the Chinese?
(a) He developed debating skills which he used to counter Chinese arguments.
(b) He developed an appreciation for different learning styles which helped him teach the Chinese.
(c) He could recite the entire Bible from memory which impressed the Chinese.
(d) He combined vivid imagery and lengthy sequences with his mnemonic skills.

5. How long had the Alaleona and Pellicani families been fighting when Ricci was a child in Macerata?
(a) For five years.
(b) For twenty years.
(c) For ten years.
(d) For fifty years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Chinese seem to prefer in its military?

2. In Ricci's version of the story of the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves," how did he depict Jesus?

3. Which war(s) did Ricci study that influenced his ideas about warfare?

4. What was the new image of the idiograph of "wu"?

5. On what ship did Ricci travel in 1578?

(see the answer key)

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