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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Introduction, Haiti is renowned as the place where the _________ receive the _________ treatment.
(a) Religious, most insulting.
(b) Tourists, best.
(c) Wretched, cruelest.
(d) Wealthy, most luxurious.

2. What pain killer is most often given in Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying?
(a) Vicadin.
(b) Aspirin.
(c) Tylenol.
(d) Motrin.

3. Chapter 2 in "Good Works and Heroic Virtues" the author contends that a clear correlation can be found between the limitation of family _____ and the life chances of the family members.
(a) Worship.
(b) Abuse.
(c) Size.
(d) Income.

4. "Intercession the hallmark of sainthood, requires the certification of a ______."
(a) Charitable act.
(b) Vision.
(c) Conversion.
(d) Miracle.

5. What quote from Lenin is used in the Introduction?
(a) "Money has no smell."
(b) "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
(c) "Crime is a product of social excess."
(d) "Democracy is indispensable to socialism."

Short Answer Questions

1. Which prominent Catholic writer has made the point that ranking contraception as a sin equivalent to abortion is cheapening the moral position on abortion?

2. What are the homeless men from Mother Teresa's San Francisco hostel not allowed to do?

3. 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?

4. Where does the Catholic congregation appear to conduct its affairs without reference to canonical teaching on birth control?

5. In Catholicism, what is a woman experiencing danger in childbirth supposed to do?

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