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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many convents did Mother Teresa boast of operating?
(a) 105.
(b) More than 500.
(c) Just over 350.
(d) 714.

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

3. What organization lists MSIA as "highly dangerous?"
(a) The Cult Awareness Network.
(b) The Catholic Church.
(c) Insight.
(d) The Psychological Victims' Rescue.

4. What does the sign over Mother Teresa's morgue say?
(a) I die in peace.
(b) We go to live with God.
(c) I am going to heaven today.
(d) My suffering is past.

5. Who said that Christianity is a religion for slaves?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Simone Weil.
(c) Christopher Hitchens.
(d) Charles Keating.

6. What does the author believe the enormous weight of received opinion a critic of Mother Teresa has to operate against is made up of?
(a) Fundamentalist deceptions.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Wishful thinking.
(d) Scripture.

7. Who was the volunteer in Calcutta that wrote, "but this kid is fifteen," about a boy with a simple kidney complaint in Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying?
(a) Emily Lewis.
(b) Susan Shields.
(c) Mary Loudon.
(d) Robin Fox.

8. "The photographs of _________ are a testament to the vitality of the people, as well as to the beauty and variety of the architecture."
(a) Nirmal Hriday.
(b) Raghubir Singh.
(c) The Vatican.
(d) The offices of the Missionaries of Charity.

9. According to the Introduction, Haiti is the property of a callous and greedy _________.
(a) Millitary.
(b) Predatory class.
(c) Despot.
(d) Cartel.

10. Of the impression his documentary helped to create, Malcolm Muggeridge said, "Mother Teresa's way of looking at life is barren soil for ________."
(a) Ratings.
(b) Today's populace.
(c) Copy writers.
(d) Entertainment.

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

12. Who wrote an unpublished manuscript entitled, In Mother's House?
(a) Susan Shields.
(b) Robin Fox.
(c) Emily Lewis.
(d) Ms. Elgy Gillespie.

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

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

15. Who is the leader of MSIA?
(a) Michele Duvalier.
(b) Michael Huffington.
(c) John-Roger.
(d) Arianna Stassinopoulos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John-Roger give to Mother Teresa?

2. According to the 1994 Lancet article, diagnostic investigations were seldom permissible because Mother Teresa preferred ________ to planning.

3. Where did the Haitian president and his wife flee to during their exile?

4. What is the name of Mother Teresa's San Francisco hostel?

5. What 1971 book claims that Mother Teresa performed a miracle?

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