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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. How was the relationship between true religious experience and magical powers perceived during the 16th century?
(a) A merging of true religious experience and magical powers.
(b) A vague line between true religious experience and magical powers.
(c) A clear distinction between true religious experience and magical powers.
(d) An opposition between true religious experience and magical powers.

2. To whom did the Chinese emperor leave many matters to be handled?
(a) Administrative eunuchs.
(b) Elected representatives.
(c) Military generals.
(d) His appointed cabinet.

3. How did Ricci change the meaning of the ideograph "yao"?
(a) He used it represent the people of one true God.
(b) He used to represent the unification of the three Chinese religions.
(c) He used it to represent female Christian converts.
(d) He used it to represent Chinese who resisted conversion.

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

5. Who ruled China from 1573 to 1620, almost the entire time Ricci was there?
(a) Emperor Zhuzong.
(b) Emperor Kwan.
(c) Emperor Wanli.
(d) Emperor Yu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ricci grew up in Macerata during a period of what?

2. Describe the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves."

3. According to the charismatic Jesuit missionary, whose mixture of "cruelty, dignity, depravity, and hypocrisy" would prevent them from truly living the faith?

4. What effect did the Japanese threat have on Ricci?

5. According to the charismatic Jesuit missionary, which group was amenable, "soft" like women, ambivalent about war and ready to do what they were told?

(see the answer key)

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