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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. While in Calcutta, what did the author witness the poor doing to Mother Teresa that he disliked?
(a) Condemning her.
(b) Praising her.
(c) Kissing her feet.
(d) Grabbing her hem.

2. Which category of patients is Ms. Elgy Gillespie, author, journalist and sometime editor of The San Francisco Review of books, experienced in caring for?
(a) Leprosy.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Cancer.

3. Who does the author quote that worked nine and a half years as a member of Mother Teresa's order?
(a) Robin Fox.
(b) Emily Lewis.
(c) Susan Shields.
(d) Ms. Elgy Gillespie.

4. ________ is the name of the author's Channel Four documentary that aired in Britain in the autumn of 1994.
(a) Blaming the Victims.
(b) Hostage to History.
(c) When Borders Bleed.
(d) Hell's Angel.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Mother Teresa, what suffers from being too far from Jesus?

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

2. What are foreign doctors' feelings about the Home for the Dying?

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

4. Why does Mother Teresa think that parents of drug users do not care for their children?

5. What is the premise for the Catholic Church's missionary work?

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

7. What was Mother Teresa's purpose in writing to Judge Lance Ito?

8. What is contradicting about Mother Teresa's policy about taking patients to hospitals?

9. What is the Church's attitude and policies about procreation?

10. What, according to the Introduction, were the author's difficulties in researching Mother Teresa's life?

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