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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Catholic occurrence is credited with causing the "fertile soil for innumerable reflections," such as: Confessions of St. Augustine and Mary McCarthy's Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood?
(a) Male hierarchy.
(b) Sexual conduct enforced by celibates.
(c) Religious schools.
(d) Charity contingent on the poor's suffering.

2. In chapter 2 of "Good Works and Heroic Virtues," the author argues that if a fertilized egg is "________, then all terminations of pregnancy at any stage and for any reason are to be regarded as murder."
(a) Viable.
(b) Implanted.
(c) Human.
(d) Healthy.

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

4. What does the Catholic Church attempt to do in states where it is strong enough?
(a) Veto political candidates.
(b) Make laws for believers and nonbelievers.
(c) Further its missionary programs.
(d) Enforce doctrine.

5. "It is often said, inside the Church and out of it, that there is something grotesque about lectures on _________ when delivered by those who have shunned it."
(a) Poverty.
(b) Charity.
(c) The sexual life.
(d) The qualities of sterilization.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to the second chapter of "Good Works & Heroic Virtues," are the Catholic Church's official dogmas mainly derived from?

2. What was Mother Teresa's benefactor's sentence for his part in the Savings and Loan scandal?

3. What did Mother Teresa give to Charles Keating in return for his generosity?

4. What connection to population growth does one not need be a follower of Reverend Malthus to deduce?

5. How much did Charles Keating donate to Mother Teresa?

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