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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight, The Fourth Image: The Fourth Picture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Matteo Ricci teach the Chinese people?
(a) How to read the Bible.
(b) How to build better villages.
(c) How to build a memory palace.
(d) How to speak English.

2. How many pictures are in the series of prints that made up the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

3. Why did Ricci alter the story of the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?
(a) To communicate the idea that God is merciful.
(b) To communicate the idea that man is sinful.
(c) To communicate the idea that woman tempts man into sin.
(d) To communicate the idea that sin brings God's judgment.

4. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what was significant about the Chinese ideograph "yao"?
(a) It had five different meanings.
(b) It was easy to translate but difficult to write.
(c) It was not used by many Chinese.
(d) It was easy to write but difficult to translate.

5. In Chinese, what is a "huihui"?
(a) A Chinese Christian convert.
(b) A Western woman who dresses like a Chinese woman.
(c) A Muslim person as well as Jews and Nestorian Christians in China.
(d) A native Chinese who follows Confucius.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Ricci's version of the story of the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves," to whom did he compare Jesus?

2. According to the author in "Chapter Seven, The Third Picture: The Men of Sodom", what was the reaction to the death of Pope Paul IV in 1559?

3. With whom were Macerata's rural poor fighting?

4. Who was the charismatic missionary to India who aimed to inspire the Asian missions of the Jesuits?

5. During the 16th century, why had Pope Paul IV given the Inquisitors in Spain great power?

(see the answer key)

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