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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. What were the Bangladesah war in 1971 and the sectarian brushfires in Assam responsible for?
(a) The exile of Christian missionaries.
(b) Calcutta's underpopulation.
(c) Calcutta's overpopulation.
(d) Calcutta sanctioned work houses.

2. During an interview with Malcolm Muggeridge, what did Mother Teresa say our works were an expression of?
(a) Our devotion to the poor.
(b) Our love for Christ.
(c) Our own spiritual poverty.
(d) Our moral integrity.

3. What does the sign over Mother Teresa's morgue say?
(a) I am going to heaven today.
(b) We go to live with God.
(c) My suffering is past.
(d) I die in peace.

4. What place in Washington D.C. caught Mother Teresa's attention during her visit in October 1981?
(a) Dupont.
(b) Chevy Chase.
(c) Anacostia.
(d) Skyland.

5. What did Mother Teresa say in the documentary while holding a child in her arms?
(a) See. There is life in her.
(b) We forget to whom we are doing it.
(c) There can never be enough.
(d) See, this is how we fight abortion and contraception.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mother Teresa refuse to include in a new home for the poor in the Bronx that caused the plans to be abandoned?

2. What organization lists MSIA as "highly dangerous?"

3. According to the Introduction, what did Chinese generals use to "Christianize" their armies?

4. What is the name of the doctor and also editor of The Lancet who visited Mother Teresa's operation in Calcutta in 1994?

5. Who did the doctor say in a 1994 Lancet article, made most of the decisions for the patients in Mother Teresa's Calcutta establishments?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Christopher Hitchens' impression of Mother Teresa when he met her in person?

2. What result does the author point out, will come of China's family restrictions?

3. What is contradictory about the Haitian publication known as L'Assaut?

4. Describe Emily Lewis' eyewitness account of Mother Teresa at a function in Washington D.C.

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

6. What obscures the amount of money Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity possess?

7. Upon returning to Albania in 1990, what did Mother Teresa do?

8. What does the author state in "Good Works & Heroic Virtues," Chapter 3, that Mother Teresa's acceptance of numerous awards, and her affectations of poverty prove?

9. What is the author's opinion of a Mother Teresa quote that appeared in Ann Lander's column?

10. What does the author mean by this quote from the Introduction, "If the baffled and fearful prehistory of our species ever comes to an end, and if we ever get off of our knees and cull those blooms, there will be no need for smoking altars and forbidding temples with which to honour the freethinking humanists, who scorned to use the fear of death to coerce and flatter the poor."

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