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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Ricci learn more about China?
(a) Through studying Chinese religions.
(b) Through his journeys across its rivers, lakes and canals.
(c) Through his seminary work with the Jesuits.
(d) Through reading books and poetry of famous Chinese authors.

2. What caused marine accidents during the 16th century in the Chinese seas?
(a) Rocky harbors and pirates.
(b) Poorly packed explosives.
(c) Overloading of goods, peoples and services.
(d) Poorly constructed ships.

3. How did Ricci change the meaning of the ideograph "yao"?
(a) He used it represent the people of one true God.
(b) He used it to represent Chinese who resisted conversion.
(c) He used it to represent female Christian converts.
(d) He used to represent the unification of the three Chinese religions.

4. On what ship did Ricci travel in 1578?
(a) The Good Jesus.
(b) The Miracle at Cana.
(c) The St. Gregory.
(d) The St. Louis.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Ricci display his sense of ecumenism in China when he was a missionary?

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

4. In the 16th century, who provided funds to Christopher Plantin to write his Bible?

5. Who was the charismatic missionary to India who aimed to inspire the Asian missions of the Jesuits?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the names of the ships during Ricci's trip from Lisbon to Goa in 1578?

2. Why did the death of King Sebastian of Portugal cause concern for the Jesuits?

3. Describe the map that Ricci has printed in 1602.

4. What did Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, think of mnemonic devices?

5. According to "Chapter One: Building the Palace", what was the size of the Memory Palace that Matteo Ricci used to teach the Chinese people?

6. What was the new version of the story associated with the first picture "The Apostle in the Waves" that Ricci gave Cheng Dayue?

7. What did Ricci do to the second idiograph and how did the meaning change?

8. What were some of the outside influences affecting Ricci's home city of Macerata?

9. How and why did Ricci display his spirit of ecumenism in China?

10. Who was Alessandro Valignano and what did he think about the possibility of Asians and Japanese converting to Christianity?

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