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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Intercession the hallmark of sainthood, requires the certification of a ______."
(a) Charitable act.
(b) Conversion.
(c) Vision.
(d) Miracle.

2. Who did Ken Macmillan credit for the footage of the House of the Dying?
(a) Mother Teresa.
(b) God.
(c) Malcolm Muggeridge.
(d) Kodak.

3. In which two magazines did the author publish early polemics against Mother Teresa?
(a) U.S. News and Time.
(b) Time and Vanity Fair.
(c) People and U.S. News.
(d) The Nation and Vanity Fair.

4. Who was the volunteer in Calcutta that wrote, "but this kid is fifteen," about a boy with a simple kidney complaint in Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying?
(a) Robin Fox.
(b) Emily Lewis.
(c) Susan Shields.
(d) Mary Loudon.

5. According to the 1994 Lancet article, diagnostic investigations were seldom permissible because Mother Teresa preferred ________ to planning.
(a) Nurturing.
(b) Piety.
(c) Practicality.
(d) Providence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What 1971 book claims that Mother Teresa performed a miracle?

2. What does the sign over Mother Teresa's morgue say?

3. In the Introduction, the author claims that Mother Teresa's life showed a determination to be ranked with _______ and ________.

4. What was the nun's name that gave the author a guided tour of Mother Teresa's Calcutta mission?

5. A picture of Mother Teresa beside Michele Duvalier appeared in which Haitian publication?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can the conditions in Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying be explained?

2. What changes did Albania experience in "Ubiquity," Chapter 1?

3. In the Introduction, what does the author conclude the picture of Mother Teresa with Michele Duvalier announces about Mother Teresa?

4. What did Malcolm Muggeridge attribute Mother Teresa's use of his donation to?

5. What is Mother Teresa's solution for abortion, and why is it obsolete?

6. How does the author explain the anti-Catholic Christian Coalition's alignment with Mother Teresa?

7. Why does the author write that the name of Mother Teresa's facility, "The Gift of Love," is tactfully named?

8. What persuaded Mother Teresa to become a nun at 18 years old?

9. According, to Susan Shields, what do Mother Teresa's nuns do for dying non-Catholics?

10. Explain what the author believes the poorest of the poor are to Mother Teresa.

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