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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. During the Renaissance, what did some believe was the purpose of these groups in China that "pledged themselves to lives of heightened spiritual service"?
(a) Political organizations to unionize the Chinese workers.
(b) Government infiltration of religious groups.
(c) Clandestine recruitment organizations for the Jesuits.
(d) Social clubs to entertain wealthy Chinese businessmen.

2. In Renaissance Italy, what city was a stop on a pilgrim route from Rome to Lareto?
(a) Venice.
(b) Genoa.
(c) Macerata.
(d) Tuscany.

3. 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) Matteo Ricci.
(b) The Japanese government.
(c) Pope Leo XII.
(d) The Council of Trent.

4. How many pictures are in the series of prints that made up the third picture, "The Men of Sodom"?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

5. What were the meanings of the two new idiographs made when Ricci split the second idiograph down the middle?
(a) Blade and knife.
(b) Profit and loss.
(c) Grain and blade.
(d) Gain and benefit.

Short Answer Questions

1. When they were in their missions during the 16th century, why did Ricci and Ruggieri often want money?

2. According to Chapter Seven, The Third Picture: The Men of Sodom, what is the subject of the series of prints that made up third picture "The Men of Sodom"?

3. When Ricci became a missionary in China during the 16th century, what was wrong with the science taught to the Chinese?

4. Why was Pope Paul IV unpopular during his reign in the 16th century?

5. According to "Chapter Eight, The Fourth Image: The Fourth Picture", who is Girolamo Costa?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Ricci able to learn the Chinese language?

2. What was Ricci's attitude toward Buddhism?

3. According to "Chapter Six, The Third Image: Profit and Harvest", what was the third Chinese character that Ricci use and what did he do with it?

4. How did the Chinese receive the ideas of Western science?

5. What did the Jesuits in China allow the Chinese to believe about Mary?

6. Where in the Memory Palace did Ricci place this last image?

7. Why did Ricci wish he had more money?

8. According to "Chapter Six, The Third Image: Profit and Harvest", what were some of the gifts that Ricci was able to give the Chinese?

9. According to "Chapter Seven, The Third Picture: The Men of Sodom", what is the image in the third picture?

10. On what did the Jesuits depend financially?

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