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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. In what year did Ricci join the Jesuits?
(a) 1610.
(b) 1552.
(c) 1583.
(d) 1571.

2. How did the Chinese people respond to Ricci's mnemonic abilities?
(a) They were not impressed.
(b) They were indifferent.
(c) They were frightened.
(d) They were stunned.

3. About what were the Jesuit missions in India concerned?
(a) Muslim assault.
(b) Illiteracy.
(c) Influx of foreigners.
(d) Poverty.

4. 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.

5. According to Ricci, which one of these is NOT a way in which memory palaces can be built?
(a) Drawn from paintings in the emperor's palace.
(b) Drawn from a combination of reality that exists and from pure imagination and fiction.
(c) Drawn from reality that exists.
(d) Drawn from pure imagination and fiction

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the meanings of the split idiographs of "wu"?

2. At the end of "Chapter One: Building the Palace", what does the author encourages his readers to do?

3. Matteo Ricci lived during which period of time?

4. Where are the memory palaces that Ricci creates to be built?

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

(see the answer key)

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