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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. While in Calcutta, what did the author witness the poor doing to Mother Teresa that he disliked?

2. According to Mother Teresa, what suffers from being too far from Jesus?

3. What did a volunteer note about the appearance of patients in Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying?

4. What is the name of Mother Teresa's San Francisco hostel?

5. Where did the Haitian president and his wife flee to during their exile?

Short Essay Questions

1. What persuaded Mother Teresa to become a nun at 18 years old?

2. What does the author mean by this quote from the Introduction, "If the baffled and fearful prehistory of our species ever comes to an end, and if we ever get off of our knees and cull those blooms, there will be no need for smoking altars and forbidding temples with which to honour the freethinking humanists, who scorned to use the fear of death to coerce and flatter the poor."

3. In the Introduction, what does the author conclude the picture of Mother Teresa with Michele Duvalier announces about Mother Teresa?

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

5. What is Mother Teresa's solution for abortion, and why is it obsolete?

6. What was in the deputy district attorney's letter to Mother Teresa?

7. What was Mother Teresa's involvement in a Nicaraguan conflict?

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

9. What does Mother Teresa's reaction to the deputy district attorney's letter reveal about her character?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Describe what information can be gleaned about the author from his writings. Consider these questions:

a) What are the author's political loyalties or principles?

b) How does the author view the Catholic Church?

c) What nationality is he?

d) Why did he feel it was his duty to write this book?

e) What do the titles of his other books reveal about him?

f) Did the author reveal any of his loyalties in the book?

g) What does the specific way the book is written reveal about him?

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