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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What did Mother Teresa give to Charles Keating in return for his generosity?
(a) A PR campaign.
(b) A personalized crucifix.
(c) A tour of her Calcutta institutions.
(d) A letter of gratitude.

3. Who scammed Mother Teresa and many others in a fund-raising scheme run by his newspaper group?
(a) John-Roger.
(b) Robert Maxwell.
(c) Charles Keating.
(d) Robin Fox.

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

5. What does the Catholic Church attempt to do in states where it is strong enough?
(a) Enforce doctrine.
(b) Veto political candidates.
(c) Make laws for believers and nonbelievers.
(d) Further its missionary programs.

6. Which award did Mother Teresa receive in Washington D.C. in October 16, 1971?
(a) John F. Kennedy award.
(b) Good Samaritan award.
(c) Templeton prize.
(d) Nobel Peace Prize.

7. When was Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1992.

8. What did Mother Teresa wear when the Vatican awarded her the John XXIII Prize for Peace in 1971?
(a) A rosary of wooden beads.
(b) A medical armband.
(c) Her traditional nun's habit.
(d) An Indian sari.

9. When awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize, what reason did Mother Teresa give to explain why many young people in the West were on drugs?
(a) Their families don't care for them.
(b) They have little understanding of real work.
(c) There isn't enough charity.
(d) They are not close enough to God.

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

11. What connection to population growth does one not need be a follower of Reverend Malthus to deduce?
(a) Apostasy.
(b) Persistence of disease.
(c) Poverty.
(d) War.

12. Who, according to the second chapter of "Good Works & Heroic Virtues," are the Catholic Church's official dogmas mainly derived from?
(a) St. Peter.
(b) Jesus.
(c) St. Jude.
(d) St. Paul.

13. 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?
(a) Charity contingent on the poor's suffering.
(b) Male hierarchy.
(c) Religious schools.
(d) Sexual conduct enforced by celibates.

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

15. Who aided Mother Teresa in her strenuous appeals to the victims of rape in Bangladesh and Bosnia to not the abort the resulting pregnancies?
(a) The Pope.
(b) MSIA.
(c) Enver Hoxha.
(d) Indira Gandhi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many orphans did Mother Teresa rescue from the Bangladesh calamity?

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

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. 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?

5. If faced with a choice between Galileo and the authority of the Inquisition, who would Mother Teresa side with?

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