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

2. According to Ricci, how is the size of the memory palace determined?
(a) By the number of good works the people perform.
(b) By the amount of money the people give to the church.
(c) By how much the people wish to remember.
(d) By the number of times the people receive the sacraments.

3. During the Renaissance, what was the focus of concern by the Jesuit missionaries in India?
(a) Jewish repression of Jesuit missionaries.
(b) Government restriction on foreign missionaries.
(c) Indigenous Christians and Nestorian heresy.
(d) Buddhist priests and anti-Christian sentiment.

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

5. To whom did the Chinese emperor leave many matters to be handled?
(a) His appointed cabinet.
(b) Elected representatives.
(c) Administrative eunuchs.
(d) Military generals.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ricci change the meaning of the ideograph "yao"?

2. What kind of map did Ricci print in 1602?

3. What was the meaning of "yao" when Ricci translated devotional prayers while he was a missionary in China?

4. How long had the Alaleona and Pellicani families been fighting when Ricci was a child in Macerata?

5. Who were the "huihui of the cross" during the 16th century when Ricci was in China?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the training of Matteo Ricci before he arrived in China.

3. What had the Japanese done to make Ricci's life difficult?

4. What were Ricci's rules for picking a location to store the information?

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

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

7. Where was the Memory Palace to be built?

8. According to "Chapter Four, The Second Image: The Huihui", what is the second idiograph that Ricci chose for a memory image and why did he choose it?

9. What were the three major religions in China?

10. According to Spence, how did Ricci use the four images and four Chinese characters?

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