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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. During the Renaissance, how did Ignatius Loyola want students to learn?
(a) By reading the Bible and relating it to the sciences.
(b) By committing many subjects to memory.
(c) By working in small groups to teach each other.
(d) By writing sections of textbooks in their own hand.

2. With whom were Macerata's rural poor fighting?
(a) City officials.
(b) Landowners.
(c) Bandits.
(d) The Catholic Church.

3. What were the meanings of the two new idiographs made when Ricci split the second idiograph down the middle?
(a) Profit and loss.
(b) Gain and benefit.
(c) Blade and knife.
(d) Grain and blade.

4. What does the first picture depict in the series of prints that made up the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?
(a) God promising to destroy Sodom because of its wickedness.
(b) Lot, Lot's wife, and their two daughters running away from the city before it is destroyed.
(c) God blinding the men of Sodom when they try to rape the angels.
(d) Lot's daughters get Lot drunk and sleep with him in order to continue their family line.

5. When did Ricci leave Macerata to study in Rome?
(a) 1658.
(b) 1607.
(c) 1574.
(d) 1568.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what did Ricci's Chinese Christian converts complain?

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

4. What did Matteo Ricci teach the Chinese people?

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

(see the answer key)

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