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

2. What does the author believe the enormous weight of received opinion a critic of Mother Teresa has to operate against is made up of?

3. Who was the president of Haiti when Mother Teresa's picture with Michele Duvalier was taken?

4. According to the 1994 Lancet article, what medicine was a boy diagnosed with "probable malaria" prescribed by a visiting doctor?

5. What question are sisters from the Missionaries of Charity supposed to ask a dying individual before secretly baptizing them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Mother Teresa's appearance in Bhopal after the Bhopal chemical spill appear political?

3. What is the Church's attitude and policies about procreation?

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

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

6. Why does the author dislike Mother Teresa's campaign for the Church's procreation policies?

7. According, to Susan Shields, what do Mother Teresa's nuns do for dying non-Catholics?

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

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

10. Describe Mother Teresa's miracle from the section titled, "A Miracle."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The author categorizes his work as a polemic. Describe how the book fits in the polemic genre. Explain if the book is an effective polemic, or if it is lacking. Explain if Mother Teresa makes a difficult subject for a polemic, or a perfect one.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the author's stance on religion and how it is apparent in the book. Consider how his stance affects the validity of his book and explains his purpose for writing it. Establish the degree of his bias over the content.

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