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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 impression, according to the author, was essential to Muggeridge's project?
(a) That abortion is a sin.
(b) That Calcutta is a hellhole.
(c) That Mother Teresa performed a miracle.
(d) That God lives in the charitable.

2. What did a volunteer note about the appearance of patients in Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying?
(a) Their heads were shaved.
(b) They wore dirty bandages.
(c) Their backs were bruised.
(d) They wore sari rags.

3. How many convents did Mother Teresa boast of operating?
(a) 105.
(b) 714.
(c) Just over 350.
(d) More than 500.

4. In the Foreword and Acknowledgments, what does the author suggest Mother Teresa was?
(a) A self-sacrificing zealot.
(b) A beggar of means and power.
(c) A strategic face of the Vatican.
(d) The chair of a missionary multinational.

5. What does the author believe the enormous weight of received opinion a critic of Mother Teresa has to operate against is made up of?
(a) Fundamentalist deceptions.
(b) Scripture.
(c) Illusion.
(d) Wishful thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the leader of MSIA?

2. What did Mother Teresa say to the author about her orphanage?

3. Who did Ken Macmillan credit for the footage of the House of the Dying?

4. Who was instrumental in bringing Mother Teresa's image to international attention?

5. What does the author observe that the people of Calcutta do not do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How are Mother Teresa's patients in the Home for the Dying treated?

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

5. What were the results of the Christian "civilizing mission" as described in "Ubiquity," Chapter 1?

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

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

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

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

10. What do Mother Teresa's appearances described in "Ubiquity," Chapter 2 have in common?

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