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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. Mother Teresa and her sisters would go to the _______ to pick up people who were abandoned and who needed help.
(a) Ghettos.
(b) Settlements.
(c) Streets.
(d) Hospitals.

2. Human _________ should never seek to end another human life, according to Mother Teresa.
(a) Legs.
(b) Machines.
(c) Hands.
(d) Eyes.

3. There was also a young man with AIDS who was able to have great _________ in his life, not anger or fear.
(a) Love.
(b) Peace.
(c) Direction.
(d) Truth.

4. ___________ is a good role model for familial obedience, according to Mother Teresa, as she says in her writings.
(a) Jesus.
(b) Peter.
(c) Saul.
(d) Job.

5. Mother Teresa also once heard a woman blame her ________ for her hunger, but then the mother ended up forgiving this person as she died.
(a) Son.
(b) Daughter.
(c) Husband.
(d) Sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mother Teresa sees the alienation that the poor experience to be similar to the suffering and the isolation that __________ suffered.

2. Mother Teresa wants people to remember that even _________ are our brothers and sisters in the world.

3. Mother Teresa believes people should slow down their lives in order to give to others, especially to _________.

4. Mother Teresa doesn't like it when people _________ things they could still use, according to the book.

5. _________ parents worry about the poverty in other countries without looking at the poverty that is already in their children at home.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mother Teresa think people lack the standing to do in their lives, according to the book?

2. What does Mother Teresa want humanity to decide to do for the rest of the world,according to the book?

3. Who does Mother Teresa name as some of the world's brothers and sisters, people who deserve respect?

4. What irritates Mother Teresa about the people who have more money than others and have earned privilege through their work?

5. What does Mother Teresa have to say about those who are truly dependent on money and on the making of money?

6. What is beautiful, according to Mother Teresa, in reference to being with the elderly, according to the book?

7. What does the AIDS patient identity with as a part of their life in order to deal with the pain, according to the book?

8. What is so important about the Eucharist and about God's word, according to Mother Teresa?

9. What did Mother Teresa do with the money that she received from the Nobel Peace Prize?

10. What happened to the woman that the sisters and Mother Teresa picked up from the street on the way to the Home for the Dying?

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