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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the first prize the Indian government awarded to Mother Teresa?
(a) Magsaysay Prize.
(b) The Ceres award.
(c) International Balzan Prize.
(d) Prize of the Miraculous Lotus.

2. According to Chapter 2 of "Good Works & Heroic Virtues," a faction from what organization has found Mother Teresa useful as an advertisement of good works and an instrument of moral suasion?
(a) The Missionaries of Charity.
(b) MSIA.
(c) The United States presidency.
(d) The Vatican.

3. Which group awarded Mother Teresa with a medallion inscribed with, "Food For All: Holy Year 1975"?
(a) The Indian government.
(b) The United States government.
(c) The Vatican.
(d) The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

4. What was Mother Teresa's benefactor's sentence for his part in the Savings and Loan scandal?
(a) Five years in prison.
(b) Ten years in prison.
(c) Fifteen years in prison.
(d) Twenty years in prison.

5. Who does the author attribute this point to, "There should be philosophy and knowledge for the elect, religion and sentimentality for the masses?"
(a) The followers of Leo Strauss.
(b) The followers of Pat Robertson.
(c) The followers of Mother Teresa.
(d) The followers of Indira Gandhi.

6. What prize from the Phillippines government did Mother Teresa win along with a much needed $50,000 rupees?
(a) The Ceres Award.
(b) Magsaysay Prize.
(c) Prize of the Miraculous Lotus.
(d) International Balzan Prize.

7. 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) Christopher Hitchens.
(b) Edward Gibbon.
(c) Leo Strauss.
(d) Ralph Reed.

8. What is actually abortifacient in the fundamentalist definition of the term?
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Intrauterine contraception.
(c) Alchoholism in pregnant women.
(d) Child neglect.

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

10. Which of Mother Teresa's benefactors was convicted for his part in the Savings and Loan scandal?
(a) Robert Maxwell.
(b) Robin Fox.
(c) Charles Keating.
(d) John-Roger.

11. According to the book, how many years have passed since the deputy district attorney requested a reply from Mother Teresa?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

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

14. In the Afterword, the author accuses a televangelist of reaching for the _______ of Mother Teresa.
(a) Challenge.
(b) Biography.
(c) Gorgon's head.
(d) Legend.

15. What prize did Prince Philip award to Mother Teresa in 1973?
(a) Nobel Peace Prize.
(b) Good Samaritan award.
(c) Templeton prize.
(d) Winston Churchill award.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which biblical prophet did the deputy district attorney quote in his letter to Mother Teresa?

2. Who does the first quote in the Afterword belong to?

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

4. Who publicly represents the Christian fundamentalist cohort, founded by Pat Robertson?

5. Which award, worth a quarter of a million lire, was presented to Mother Teresa in 1979 by the president of Italy?

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