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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author of the 1994 Lancet article was disturbed to learn Mother Teresa's clinic uses no strong ________.
(a) Analgesics.
(b) Disinfectants.
(c) Bandaging.
(d) Antibiotics.

2. What was the nun's name that gave the author a guided tour of Mother Teresa's Calcutta mission?
(a) Mother Teresa.
(b) Emily Lewis.
(c) Elgy Gillespie.
(d) Susan Shields.

3. While in Calcutta, what did the author witness the poor doing to Mother Teresa that he disliked?
(a) Kissing her feet.
(b) Praising her.
(c) Grabbing her hem.
(d) Condemning her.

4. What are the homeless men from Mother Teresa's San Francisco hostel not allowed to do?
(a) Medicate.
(b) Play card games.
(c) Have friends over.
(d) Read newspapers.

5. What does the author believe the enormous weight of received opinion a critic of Mother Teresa has to operate against is made up of?
(a) Fundamentalist deceptions.
(b) Wishful thinking.
(c) Illusion.
(d) Scripture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the leader of MSIA?

2. Mother Teresa once told a terminal cancer patient, "You are suffering like Christ on the cross. So Jesus must be ______ you."

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

4. What did Malcolm Muggeridge claim registered on a photographic film?

5. According to the Introduction, Haiti is renowned as the place where the _________ receive the _________ treatment.

(see the answer key)

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