3. Who did the doctor say in a 1994 Lancet article, made most of the decisions for the patients in Mother Teresa's Calcutta establishments?
(a) Sisters.
(b) Clergy.
(c) Mother Teresa.
(d) Doctors.

4. According to the book, how many years had Mother Teresa been working in Calcutta?
(a) Three and a half decades.
(b) Most of four decades.
(c) Four and a half decades.
(d) Five and a quarter decades.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During an interview with Malcolm Muggeridge, what did Mother Teresa say our works were an expression of?

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

3. 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?

4. "The photographs of _________ are a testament to the vitality of the people, as well as to the beauty and variety of the architecture."

5. According to the 1994 Lancet article, what medicine was a boy diagnosed with "probable malaria" prescribed by a visiting doctor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was surprising about what Mother Teresa used Malcolm Muggeridge's donation for?

2. What is upsetting about Mother Teresa's visit with Michele Duvalier?

3. What was in the deputy district attorney's letter to Mother Teresa?

4. 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."

5. 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?

6. What does Mother Teresa's reaction to the deputy district attorney's letter reveal about her character?

7. What was Mother Teresa's involvement in a Nicaraguan conflict?

8. How was the Catholic Church in Haiti at odds with the Vatican?

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

10. Describe Mother Teresa's miracle from the section titled, "A Miracle."

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