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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose methods of deception were "false prospectus" and "political bribe"?
(a) Robin Fox.
(b) Charles Keating.
(c) Robert Maxwell.
(d) John-Roger.

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

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.
(a) Worship.
(b) Abuse.
(c) Income.
(d) Size.

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

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

6. 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.

7. Which author wrote of how Mother Teresa unexpectedly received an amount of money on the same day that it was needed in a biography?
(a) Edward Le Jolly.
(b) Dr. Lush Gjergji.
(c) Malcolm Muggeridge.
(d) William Jay Jacobs.

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

9. 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) Indira Gandhi.
(c) Enver Hoxha.
(d) MSIA.

10. 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 Indira Gandhi.
(c) The followers of Pat Robertson.
(d) The followers of Mother Teresa.

11. How many orphans did Mother Teresa rescue from the Bangladesh calamity?
(a) 28-35.
(b) Just under 100.
(c) 3-4 dozen.
(d) 4-5 dozen.

12. In the Afterword, the author claims he has been rebuked for sneering at a woman who "gives those in the ______ a glimpse of the ______."
(a) Gutter, stars.
(b) Storm, clear.
(c) Cold, warm.
(d) Trenches, heavens.

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

14. Where was the Ann Lander's comment quoting Mother Teresa as saying, "They should smile more," sent from?
(a) Dublin, Ireland.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Prince George, British Columbia.
(d) Clarksville, Tennessee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who served Richard Nixon as a member of a commission to investigate the ill effects of pornography?

2. Which prominent Catholic writer has made the point that ranking contraception as a sin equivalent to abortion is cheapening the moral position on abortion?

3. 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?

4. What was Mother Teresa's benefactor's sentence for his part in the Savings and Loan scandal?

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

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