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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was NOT one of the things that Mother Teresa did for the children when she would first pick them up in the park?
(a) Take them to their convent.
(b) Read to them.
(c) Teach them good hygiene.
(d) Teach them the alphabet.

2. Mother Teresa says that _______ should not worry a person, but the lack of saintliness upon one's death bed.
(a) Sin.
(b) God.
(c) Death.
(d) Truth.

3. Mother Teresa's main goal in all of her work was to serve the _________, according to the book.
(a) Whites.
(b) Poor.
(c) Unfaithful.
(d) Helpless.

4. How old was Mother Teresa when she decided to begin to become a nun after her first call?
(a) 16.
(b) 25.
(c) 18.
(d) 20.

5. What is the stage of becoming a nun, also known as the apprenticeship, which Mother Teresa underwent and then received another call?
(a) Next Step.
(b) Novitiate.
(c) Retrituve.
(d) Magroa.

6. Mother Teresa says that prayer produces _______ and that produces love and the ability to serve others.
(a) Momentum.
(b) Love.
(c) Truth.
(d) Faith.

7. Poor people only die because no one would give them what they _________, according to Mother Teresa.
(a) Deserved.
(b) Wanted.
(c) Needed.
(d) Asked for.

8. Experiencing _______ is normal and human, but overcoming it is a heroic act, according to Mother Teresa.
(a) Pride.
(b) Honor.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Possessiveness.

9. What does Saint Francis do in order to show that he could overcome the repulsion he was feeling for another person?
(a) Kiss the leper.
(b) Live in the hospital.
(c) Move away.
(d) Hide from the order.

10. To pray to Christ is to _______ him, according to the ideas of Mother Teresa in this book.
(a) Love.
(b) Understand.
(c) Believe in.
(d) Know.

11. St. Thomas believed that being holy required surrendering the __________ to God in all that a person does.
(a) Head.
(b) Soul.
(c) Hands.
(d) Heart.

12. The poor do not want condescension or ________, but only love and kindness, according to Mother Teresa.
(a) Pity.
(b) Begging.
(c) Pain.
(d) Conversion.

13. Mother Teresa believed that countries need to be focusing on giving their people _________ more than they need to give them anything else.
(a) Shelter.
(b) Food.
(c) Hope.
(d) Water.

14. Following Saint ___________, Mother Teresa believes that the poor are the masters of the people and that they must be treated as equals.
(a) Mary.
(b) Augustine.
(c) Christiane.
(d) Vincent de Paul.

15. Mother Teresa encourages the reader to meet _________, those who live far away and those who live close.
(a) Challenges.
(b) People.
(c) Poor.
(d) Babies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mother Teresa wants people to give, not as an obligation, but out of __________ to help others.

2. Mother Teresa is said to have experienced a call within a __________ when she feels compelled to go help the poor in India.

3. Mother Teresa believes that one must ________ to the point of sacrifice as this is how God will begin to see this love and pay attention to it.

4. An Italian child sent a letter to Mother Teresa after his First ___________, giving her the gifts that he had received.

5. Give until it ________, according to the teachings of Mother Teresa, and then give some more.

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