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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused marine accidents during the 16th century in the Chinese seas?

2. Where was Ricci born?

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

4. When the king died without an heir, what effect did this have?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. During the 16th century, why did the Jesuits send two copies of their letters on two different passages when they wrote home?

3. Does the author know with certainty where Ricci picked up the idea of mnemonic devices?

4. Why does Matteo Ricci agree to use his mnemonic techniques to help Governor Lu's sons?

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

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

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

8. What were conditions in Ricci's home city of Macerata when he was a young boy?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the third picture, Ricci uses the story of Lot and the city of Sodom as an analogy to the rule and death of Pope Paul IV. Using these two characters and their stories, discuss the theme that power and weakness rise and fall together and political abuses of power destroy public morality and respect for tradition.

Essay Topic 2

Ricci adapts the Chinese ideograph "wu" to explain the concept of peace. Explain the original meaning of "wu" and the way Ricci modified it. Discuss how the events in Ricci's life influenced this alteration.

Essay Topic 3

The word "huihui" refers to different groups of Chinese and Ricci uses the ideograph "yao" to develop an image about the huihui for the Memory Palace. Research online or in the library for additional information about these two terms. Explain the meanings of the two words and the way Ricci adapts them.

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