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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Foreword and Acknowledgments, what does the author suggest Mother Teresa was?
(a) A strategic face of the Vatican.
(b) A self-sacrificing zealot.
(c) The chair of a missionary multinational.
(d) A beggar of means and power.

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

3. Where does the Catholic congregation appear to conduct its affairs without reference to canonical teaching on birth control?
(a) United States.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Central America.
(d) India.

4. Who was instrumental in bringing Mother Teresa's image to international attention?
(a) Malcolm Muggeridge.
(b) Hillary Rodham Clinton.
(c) John-Roger.
(d) Charles Keating.

5. In Catholicism, what is a woman experiencing danger in childbirth supposed to do?
(a) Sacrifice the child's life for her own.
(b) Rely on prayer to save them.
(c) Rely on a physician's abilities.
(d) Sacrifice her life for the child's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter 2 of "Good Works and Heroic Virtues," the author argues that if a fertilized egg is "________, then all terminations of pregnancy at any stage and for any reason are to be regarded as murder."

2. "It is often said, inside the Church and out of it, that there is something grotesque about lectures on _________ when delivered by those who have shunned it."

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

4. Which prominent Catholic writer has made the point that ranking contraception as a sin equivalent to abortion is cheapening the moral position on abortion?

5. In the Introduction, the author claims that Mother Teresa's life showed a determination to be ranked with _______ and ________.

(see the answer key)

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