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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 quote from Lenin is used in the Introduction?
(a) "Democracy is indispensable to socialism."
(b) "Crime is a product of social excess."
(c) "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
(d) "Money has no smell."

2. What are the homeless men from Mother Teresa's San Francisco hostel not allowed to do?
(a) Medicate.
(b) Read newspapers.
(c) Have friends over.
(d) Play card games.

3. What is the name of the doctor and also editor of The Lancet who visited Mother Teresa's operation in Calcutta in 1994?
(a) Robin Fox.
(b) Susan Shields.
(c) Mary Loudon.
(d) Emily Lewis.

4. What was the role of Ken Macmillan on Malcolm Muggeridge's crew?
(a) Lighting.
(b) Translator.
(c) Boom operator.
(d) Cameraman.

5. In how many countries, "without counting India," did Mother Teresa operate convents?
(a) Over 250.
(b) More than 200.
(c) Over 105.
(d) 47.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the leaders of Haiti give to Mother Teresa?

2. According to the Introduction, Haiti is renowned as the place where the _________ receive the _________ treatment.

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

4. According to the 1994 Lancet article, diagnostic investigations were seldom permissible because Mother Teresa preferred ________ to planning.

5. Who is the pastor mentioned in the Introduction of St. Teresa's in Washington D.C.?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the affectation, well known to missionary fund-raisers, that the author accuses Mother Teresa of using, in "Good Works & Heroic Virtues," Chapter 3.

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

8. In the introduction, what does the author think happens to one's view of Mother Teresa when her life is looked at without awe or reverence?

9. How did Mother Teresa's appearance in Bhopal after the Bhopal chemical spill appear political?

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

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