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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six, The Third Image: Profit and Harvest.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was arrested, beaten and imprisoned for trying to make money by keeping tribute given to the guards at the Xiangshan border during the 16th century when Ricci was in China??
(a) Matteo Ricci.
(b) Ignatius Loyola.
(c) A cook employed by Matteo Ricci.
(d) A courier of Jesuit letters.

2. Who or what urged penalties on Christians who participated with the Japanese in the Japanese use of financial tricks to make money during the 16th century?
(a) The Japanese government.
(b) Pope Leo XII.
(c) The Council of Trent.
(d) Matteo Ricci.

3. About what did Ricci's Chinese Christian converts complain?
(a) Repression from the government.
(b) Hostility from other Chinese.
(c) Lack of Christian works, such as the Bible.
(d) Inability to understand the papacy.

4. When the king died without an heir, what effect did this have?
(a) Increased the influence on Protestants on the Portuguese.
(b) Decreased the interest in exploration to the New World.
(c) Decreased the prestige of Christendom when missionary work was important.
(d) Increased the prestige of Christendom when missionary work was important.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", to what religious order did Matteo Ricci belong?

2. During the Renaissance, why were the Jesuits NOT considered a mendicant order?

3. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what concerned some Jesuits, including Ricci?

4. What was the new image of the idiograph of "wu"?

5. Describe the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves."

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