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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has John-Roger repeatedly claimed to have a superior "spiritual consciousness" to?

2. What was the nun's name that gave the author a guided tour of Mother Teresa's Calcutta mission?

3. What pain killer is most often given in Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying?

4. What political patron of Mother Teresa embarked on a criminal campaign of forced sterilization?

5. According to the book, how many years had Mother Teresa been working in Calcutta?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are causes of Calcutta's overpopulation?

2. What is contradicting about Mother Teresa's policy about taking patients to hospitals?

3. What is odd about the photograph of Mother Teresa with John-Roger?

4. What are foreign doctors' feelings about the Home for the Dying?

5. How was the Catholic Church in Haiti at odds with the Vatican?

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

7. Describe the Church's policies on procreation in light of an overpopulated world.

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

9. 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?

10. Describe Malcolm Muggeridge's role in Mother Teresa's fame.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe what contradictions are present in Mother Teresa's life and how, or if they reflect on her. Consider how Mother Teresa's fundamentalism was or was not a hindrance to the countries in her aid. Decide whether the contradictions in Mother Teresa's life had any bearing on her effect on these countries.

Essay Topic 2

Describe what impact Mother Teresa's childhood in Albania had on the rest of her life. Did she have loyalties to Albania? Did any loyalties clash with her beliefs or life's work? How is Mother Teresa's upbringing apparent in her fully developed character? What qualities did Mother Teresa have in common with Albania's government?

Essay Topic 3

Establish Malcolm Muggeridge's view of and affect on Mother Teresa's fame. Consider how much of his work attributes for the world's general perception of her. Describe how The Missionary Position differs from Malcolm Muggeridge's film and book on Mother Teresa.

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