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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What expression does Washington vernacular still contain in honor of the United State Senators who did an infamous con man favors while receiving vast campaign donations in the form of other people's money?
(a) Maxwell Seven.
(b) Fox four.
(c) Keating Five.
(d) John-Roger Three.

2. Who does the first quote in the Afterword belong to?
(a) John-Roger.
(b) Ralph Reed.
(c) Leo Strauss.
(d) Ann Landers.

3. If faced with a choice between Galileo and the authority of the Inquisition, who would Mother Teresa side with?
(a) Galileo.
(b) God.
(c) Church Authorities.
(d) The poor.

4. In Catholicism, what is a woman experiencing danger in childbirth supposed to do?
(a) Rely on a physician's abilities.
(b) Sacrifice the child's life for her own.
(c) Rely on prayer to save them.
(d) Sacrifice her life for the child's.

5. In the Afterword, who is mentioned as having observed that the prevalent modes of worship in the Roman world were "considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful?"
(a) Leo Strauss.
(b) Edward Gibbon.
(c) Christopher Hitchens.
(d) Ralph Reed.

6. 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.

7. What does the author propose in the Afterword will unite against any version of "secular humanist" enlightenment?
(a) All versions of Clergy.
(b) All versions of the faithful.
(c) All versions of poverty.
(d) All versions of race.

8. What country has to seek an accommodation for its huge Protestant-majority province?
(a) Albania.
(b) Bangladesh.
(c) Ireland.
(d) India.

9. What were the $50,000 rupees Sister Frances of Agra asked Mother Teresa for?
(a) A house for children.
(b) A house for homeless.
(c) A house for AIDS patients.
(d) A house for Malaria patients.

10. Which groups, does the author mention, have petitioned for the right to be considered true Catholics?
(a) Communist.
(b) Sexual offender.
(c) Homosexual.
(d) Abortionist.

11. In an interview with Malcolm Muggeridge, what did Mother Teresa say she could not do because of her vow to the poor?
(a) Work for the rich.
(b) Ease their financial burden.
(c) Preach.
(d) Beg.

12. Who maintained that "ensoulment" was the point in which a life becomes human and mortal?
(a) Thomas Aquinas.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Indira Gandhi.
(d) Mother Teresa.

13. How much did Charles Keating donate to Mother Teresa?
(a) Three quarters of a million dollars.
(b) One and a quarter million dollars.
(c) One million dollars.
(d) Two million dollars.

14. Who served Richard Nixon as a member of a commission to investigate the ill effects of pornography?
(a) Lance Ito.
(b) Paul Turley.
(c) Robert Maxwell.
(d) Charles Keating.

15. Who says, in the Afterword, that he began judging Mother Teresa's reputation by her actions and words rather than her actions and words by her reputation?
(a) Lush Gjergji.
(b) Charlie Rose.
(c) Ralph Reed.
(d) Christopher Hitchens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who scammed Mother Teresa and many others in a fund-raising scheme run by his newspaper group?

2. Who does the author attribute this point to, "There should be philosophy and knowledge for the elect, religion and sentimentality for the masses?"

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.

4. In the Afterword, the author accuses a televangelist of reaching for the _______ of Mother Teresa.

5. Where was the Ann Lander's comment quoting Mother Teresa as saying, "They should smile more," sent from?

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