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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 was the role of Ken Macmillan on Malcolm Muggeridge's crew?

2. What does the sign over Mother Teresa's morgue say?

3. What 1971 book claims that Mother Teresa performed a miracle?

4. What place in Washington D.C. caught Mother Teresa's attention during her visit in October 1981?

5. According to the 1994 Lancet article, diagnostic investigations were seldom permissible because Mother Teresa preferred ________ to planning.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to Mother Teresa's institution in New Dehli.

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

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

5. What was Mother Teresa's relationship with Charles Keating?

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

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

8. Upon returning to Albania in 1990, what did Mother Teresa do?

9. What changes did Albania experience in "Ubiquity," Chapter 1?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Establish the author's reasons for writing this book. Decide if it is our duty to look closely at Mother Teresa and people like her. Describe how the author's concerns about Mother Teresa are or are not validated in the book

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Mother Teresa's claim of being apolitical. Describe the political aspects of Mother Teresa's life, and her involvement in them. Explain what motivations Mother Teresa might have had for getting, or not getting involved in politics. Determine how much of her life's work was political.

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