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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A picture of Mother Teresa beside Michele Duvalier appeared in which Haitian publication?
(a) Concretes et Tangibles.
(b) L'Assaut.
(c) Signo Vinces.
(d) Claudisme.

2. 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 Medical staff.
(b) A fire escape plan.
(c) An elevator.
(d) Conventional toilets.

3. What were the Bangladesah war in 1971 and the sectarian brushfires in Assam responsible for?
(a) Calcutta's underpopulation.
(b) Calcutta sanctioned work houses.
(c) Calcutta's overpopulation.
(d) The exile of Christian missionaries.

4. 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) An operation.
(d) Dialysis.

5. Who did the doctor say in a 1994 Lancet article, made most of the decisions for the patients in Mother Teresa's Calcutta establishments?
(a) Sisters.
(b) Clergy.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Mother Teresa.

6. What do patients lie on in the Home for the Dying?
(a) Cots.
(b) Stretcher beds.
(c) Rugs.
(d) Dirt floor.

7. Who has John-Roger repeatedly claimed to have a superior "spiritual consciousness" to?
(a) The apostle Paul.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) American politicians.
(d) The pope.

8. Mother Teresa once told a terminal cancer patient, "You are suffering like Christ on the cross. So Jesus must be ______ you."
(a) Kissing.
(b) Praising.
(c) Watching.
(d) Holding.

9. Who was instrumental in bringing Mother Teresa's image to international attention?
(a) Malcolm Muggeridge.
(b) John-Roger.
(c) Hillary Rodham Clinton.
(d) Charles Keating.

10. What did Mother Teresa say to the author about her orphanage?
(a) This is how we fight abortion and contraception.
(b) This is where everyone is wanted.
(c) This is He and not I.
(d) There can never be enough.

11. What does the author observe that the people of Calcutta do not do?
(a) Steal.
(b) Beg.
(c) Read.
(d) Worship.

12. According to Mother Teresa, what suffers from being too far from Jesus?
(a) Bangladesh.
(b) Pakistan.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) Calcutta.

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

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 Who wrote an unpublished manuscript entitled, In Mother's House?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

15. How do the nuns in the Home for the Dying treat used needles?
(a) They are buried.
(b) They are washed in cold water.
(c) They are left in open receptacles.
(d) They are boiled in sauce pans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the leaders of Haiti give to Mother Teresa?

2. Who does the author quote that worked nine and a half years as a member of Mother Teresa's order?

3. What was the nun's name that gave the author a guided tour of Mother Teresa's Calcutta mission?

4. Who was the president of Haiti when Mother Teresa's picture with Michele Duvalier was taken?

5. "The photographs of _________ are a testament to the vitality of the people, as well as to the beauty and variety of the architecture."

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