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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What connection to population growth does one not need be a follower of Reverend Malthus to deduce?
(a) War.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Apostasy.
(d) Persistence of disease.

2. What was Mother Teresa's benefactor's sentence for his part in the Savings and Loan scandal?
(a) Fifteen years in prison.
(b) Twenty years in prison.
(c) Ten years in prison.
(d) Five years in prison.

3. What is actually abortifacient in the fundamentalist definition of the term?
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Alchoholism in pregnant women.
(c) Intrauterine contraception.
(d) Child neglect.

4. In which two magazines did the author publish early polemics against Mother Teresa?
(a) U.S. News and Time.
(b) People and U.S. News.
(c) The Nation and Vanity Fair.
(d) Time and Vanity Fair.

5. Which award did Mother Teresa receive in Washington D.C. in October 16, 1971?
(a) Good Samaritan award.
(b) Nobel Peace Prize.
(c) John F. Kennedy award.
(d) Templeton prize.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mother Teresa, what suffers from being too far from Jesus?

2. Which award, worth a quarter of a million lire, was presented to Mother Teresa in 1979 by the president of Italy?

3. Which groups, does the author mention, have petitioned for the right to be considered true Catholics?

4. What does the author observe that the people of Calcutta do not do?

5. What Catholic occurrence is credited with causing the "fertile soil for innumerable reflections," such as: Confessions of St. Augustine and Mary McCarthy's Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood?

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