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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two, The First Image: The Warriors.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who tried to stop the violence in the city of Macerata while Ricci was growing up there?
(a) Clergy and city fathers.
(b) Macerata police.
(c) Italian soldiers.
(d) Local sheriff and deputies.

3. In what other way were mnemonic devices used during the 16th century?
(a) To learn the theologies of the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian religions.
(b) To convert other non-Christians around the world.
(c) To help explorers navigate to the New World.
(d) To retain substantial scientific, mathematical, and musical information of the Renaissance.

4. According to "Chapter Two, The First Image: The Warriors", what does the Chinese idiograph "wu" symbolize?
(a) Stop or prevent.
(b) Spear.
(c) Clean and dry.
(d) War.

5. Who defended the use of these mnemonic devices as part of the moral regulation of memory?
(a) Rabelais.
(b) Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Cornelius Agrippa.
(d) Erasmus.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Ricci join the Jesuits?

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

3. Who criticized the use of "monstrous" images for causing "madness and frenzy instead of profound and sure memory"?

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

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

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