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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. Who is the leader of MSIA?

2. What impression, according to the author, was essential to Muggeridge's project?

3. What did Mother Teresa say in the documentary while holding a child in her arms?

4. In how many countries, "without counting India," did Mother Teresa operate convents?

5. What pain killer is most often given in Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can the conditions in Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying be explained?

2. What are causes of Calcutta's overpopulation?

3. How does the author explain the anti-Catholic Christian Coalition's alignment with Mother Teresa?

4. What does the author state in "Good Works & Heroic Virtues," Chapter 3, that Mother Teresa's acceptance of numerous awards, and her affectations of poverty prove?

5. How did Mother Teresa's appearance in Bhopal after the Bhopal chemical spill appear political?

6. Describe Emily Lewis' eyewitness account of Mother Teresa at a function in Washington D.C.

7. Describe the Christopher Hitchens' opinion of Calcutta.

8. Explain what the author believes the poorest of the poor are to Mother Teresa.

9. What is contradictory about the Haitian publication known as L'Assaut?

10. What does the author mean by this quote from the Introduction, "If the baffled and fearful prehistory of our species ever comes to an end, and if we ever get off of our knees and cull those blooms, there will be no need for smoking altars and forbidding temples with which to honour the freethinking humanists, who scorned to use the fear of death to coerce and flatter the poor."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe what information can be gleaned about the author from his writings. Consider these questions:

a) What are the author's political loyalties or principles?

b) How does the author view the Catholic Church?

c) What nationality is he?

d) Why did he feel it was his duty to write this book?

e) What do the titles of his other books reveal about him?

f) Did the author reveal any of his loyalties in the book?

g) What does the specific way the book is written reveal about him?

Essay Topic 2

Establish the author's reasons for writing this book. Decide if it is our duty to look closely at Mother Teresa and people like her. Describe how the author's concerns about Mother Teresa are or are not validated in the book

Essay Topic 3

Examine the significance of the title and its applicability to the text. Explain why the title is appropriate for the book. Describe literal and ironic examples of how the title applies to Mother Teresa. Determine if the title gives expectations that are met in the book.

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