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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mother Teresa refuse to include in a new home for the poor in the Bronx that caused the plans to be abandoned?
(a) A fire escape plan.
(b) A Medical staff.
(c) Conventional toilets.
(d) An elevator.

2. What is the name of the doctor and also editor of The Lancet who visited Mother Teresa's operation in Calcutta in 1994?
(a) Robin Fox.
(b) Susan Shields.
(c) Emily Lewis.
(d) Mary Loudon.

3. What did the fifteen year old boy dying of a kidney complaint in the Home for the Dying need to save him?
(a) Purified water.
(b) An IV drip.
(c) Dialysis.
(d) An operation.

4. Which prominent Catholic writer has made the point that ranking contraception as a sin equivalent to abortion is cheapening the moral position on abortion?
(a) Christopher Hitchens.
(b) Charles Keating.
(c) Clare Booth Luce.
(d) Malcolm Muggeridge.

5. In chapter 2 of "Good Works and Heroic Virtues," the author argues that if a fertilized egg is "________, then all terminations of pregnancy at any stage and for any reason are to be regarded as murder."
(a) Viable.
(b) Implanted.
(c) Human.
(d) Healthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sign over Mother Teresa's morgue say?

2. Who has John-Roger repeatedly claimed to have a superior "spiritual consciousness" to?

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

4. In an interview with Malcolm Muggeridge, what did Mother Teresa say she could not do because of her vow to the poor?

5. "It is often said, inside the Church and out of it, that there is something grotesque about lectures on _________ when delivered by those who have shunned it."

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