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

2. According the manuscript, In Mother's House, "Missionaries of Charity do not ______ things but must rely only on God's providence."
(a) Gather.
(b) Request.
(c) Change.
(d) Store.

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?
(a) Susan Shields.
(b) Emily Lewis.
(c) Mary Loudon.
(d) Robin Fox.

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

5. What did the fifteen year old boy dying of a kidney complaint in the Home for the Dying need to save him?
(a) Dialysis.
(b) Purified water.
(c) An operation.
(d) An IV drip.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the impression his documentary helped to create, Malcolm Muggeridge said, "Mother Teresa's way of looking at life is barren soil for ________."

2. What symbolic animal appeared on the same publication as Mother Teresa's picture with Michele Duvalier?

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

4. What quote from Lenin is used in the Introduction?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In the Introduction, what does the author conclude the picture of Mother Teresa with Michele Duvalier announces about Mother Teresa?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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."

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

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

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