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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. Who was the college teacher in Rome that maintained a correspondence with Ricci after Ricci left school?
(a) Thomas Aquinas.
(b) Augustine.
(c) Clavius.
(d) Ignatius.

2. Ricci grew up in Macerata during a period of what?
(a) Disease.
(b) War and violence.
(c) Peace.
(d) Natural disasters.

3. From whom did Ricci devise this memory method?
(a) The Roman poet Ovid.
(b) The Renaissance playwright Christopher Marlowe.
(c) The Greek poet Aristotle.
(d) The Greek poet Simonides.

4. Where are the memory palaces that Ricci creates to be built?
(a) In the children's hospitals.
(b) In the people's towns.
(c) In the children's homes.
(d) In the people's minds.

5. What effect did the Japanese threat have on Ricci?
(a) The Chinese ignored both the Christians and Ricci.
(b) The Chinese tolerated Christians but ignored Ricci.
(c) The Chinese despised Christians and feared Ricci.
(d) The Chinese welcomed Christians and embraced Ricci.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", when Ricci cut the idiograph in half horizontally, what did the two halves mean?

2. How many Christians were in the Japanese army during the 16th century?

3. During the Renaissance, what were the Jesuits searching for in their publications?

4. During the Renaissance, how did Ignatius Loyola want students to learn?

5. In Chinese, what is a "huihui"?

(see the answer key)

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