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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What connection to population growth does one not need be a follower of Reverend Malthus to deduce?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Persistence of disease.
(c) War.
(d) Apostasy.

2. Which prominent Catholic writer has made the point that ranking contraception as a sin equivalent to abortion is cheapening the moral position on abortion?
(a) Clare Booth Luce.
(b) Christopher Hitchens.
(c) Charles Keating.
(d) Malcolm Muggeridge.

3. What prize did Prince Philip award to Mother Teresa in 1973?
(a) Winston Churchill award.
(b) Templeton prize.
(c) Nobel Peace Prize.
(d) Good Samaritan award.

4. Who served Richard Nixon as a member of a commission to investigate the ill effects of pornography?
(a) Paul Turley.
(b) Robert Maxwell.
(c) Lance Ito.
(d) Charles Keating.

5. In the Afterword, who is mentioned as having observed that the prevalent modes of worship in the Roman world were "considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful?"
(a) Christopher Hitchens.
(b) Edward Gibbon.
(c) Leo Strauss.
(d) Ralph Reed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author suggest in Chapter 3 of "Good Works & Heroic Virtues" would be possible if all of Mother Teresa's prize money was used on one project?

2. Which words will have no literal meaning in the future of the People's Republic of China, according to Chapter 2 of "Good Works and Heroic Virtues?"

3. What does the author propose in the Afterword will unite against any version of "secular humanist" enlightenment?

4. In Judaism, what is a woman experiencing danger in childbirth supposed to do?

5. What amount did Mother Teresa receive with her award from Prince Philip?

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