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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 Pat Robertson.
(b) The followers of Indira Gandhi.
(c) The followers of Mother Teresa.
(d) The followers of Leo Strauss.

3. What amount did Mother Teresa receive with her award from Prince Philip?
(a) £27,000
(b) £50,000
(c) £43,000
(d) £34,000

4. Who was the deputy district attorney who wrote a letter to Mother Teresa?
(a) Charles Keating.
(b) Lance Ito.
(c) Paul Turley.
(d) Robert Maxwell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does the author suggest in Chapter 3 of "Good Works & Heroic Virtues" would be possible if all of Mother Teresa's prize money was used on one project?
(a) The Home for the Dying could have 24-hour doctor supervision.
(b) The homeless of Calcutta could be afforded permanent shelter.
(c) Calcutta could have a teaching hospital.
(d) The poor in Mother Teresa's homes could have several years' worth of rations.

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

15. 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) Leo Strauss.
(c) Ralph Reed.
(d) Edward Gibbon.

Short Answer Questions

1. "It is often said, inside the Church and out of it, that there is something grotesque about lectures on _________ when delivered by those who have shunned it."

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

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

4. Who wrote the short story, "The Free Radio" in East, West?

5. What is actually abortifacient in the fundamentalist definition of the term?

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