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

Short Answer 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?

2. Where did Mother Teresa address a vast open-air mass in Ireland in 1992?

3. Which biblical prophet did the deputy district attorney quote in his letter to Mother Teresa?

4. If faced with a choice between Galileo and the authority of the Inquisition, who would Mother Teresa side with?

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Mother Teresa's stance on procreation. Determine whether or not the impact of her stance is diminished by her status as an elderly virgin, whether or not her solution to abortion is a solution, and whether her stance is harmful or helpful. Consider Mother Teresa's reasons to reconsider her stance, and why she did not.

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