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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. Who encouraged the use of mnemonic devices as a way to remember the multitude of one's sins?
(a) Ludolfus Saxony.
(b) Plato.
(c) Ignatius Loyola.
(d) Rabelais.

2. 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.

3. What did Ricci realize about his attempt at ecumenism when he was a missionary in China?
(a) He realized that the tenets of the Chinese religions did not align with Christian tenets.
(b) He realized this was not the way to high stature so he began to focus on perceptions of his social status.
(c) He realized that women and children were not accepted in Chinese society.
(d) He realized this was very successful and began to encourage other Jesuit missionaries to dress like the locals.

4. According to "Chapter Two, The First Image: The Warriors", what does the Chinese idiograph "wu" symbolize?
(a) Stop or prevent.
(b) War.
(c) Clean and dry.
(d) Spear.

5. When did Ricci leave Macerata to study in Rome?
(a) 1607.
(b) 1658.
(c) 1568.
(d) 1574.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Christopher Plantin take to write his Bible, the pinnacle of the Counter-Reformation, in the 16th century?

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

3. What did the Chinese seem to prefer in its military?

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

5. How did the Chinese people respond to Ricci's mnemonic abilities?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ricci use Chinese ideograph did Ricci use for his first image?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. When Ricci was a missionary in the 16th century, to what did Ricci compare the hand of God to the Chinese?

9. 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?

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

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