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

2. What did the Chinese seem to prefer in its military?
(a) Diplomacy and nationalism over expansion.
(b) Pomp and circumstance over actual combat.
(c) Actual combat over pomp and circumstance.
(d) Expansion over diplomacy and nationalism.

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

4. What did Ricci do to the first Chinese idiograph?
(a) Combined it with the idiograph for peace.
(b) Cut it into three different idiographs.
(c) Cut it diagonally.
(d) Cut it into four different idiographs.

5. Where was Ricci born?
(a) In Peking, China.
(b) In Florence, Italy.
(c) In Macerata, Italy.
(d) In Lisbon, Portugal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ricci spend five years as an apprentice?

2. When did Ricci leave Macerata to study in Rome?

3. How can Ricci's use of mnemonic devices be understood?

4. How did Ricci use the first four memory images in his memory palace?

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

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