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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What 1971 book claims that Mother Teresa performed a miracle?
(a) Caring for All God's Children.
(b) Helping the Poor.
(c) Something Beautiful for God.
(d) Protector of the Sick.

2. Which category of patients is Ms. Elgy Gillespie, author, journalist and sometime editor of The San Francisco Review of books, experienced in caring for?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Leprosy.
(d) AIDS.

3. Which prominent Catholic writer has made the point that ranking contraception as a sin equivalent to abortion is cheapening the moral position on abortion?
(a) Malcolm Muggeridge.
(b) Charles Keating.
(c) Clare Booth Luce.
(d) Christopher Hitchens.

4. What does the author suggest in Chapter 3 of "Good Works & Heroic Virtues" would be possible if all of Mother Teresa's prize money was used on one project?
(a) The homeless of Calcutta could be afforded permanent shelter.
(b) The Home for the Dying could have 24-hour doctor supervision.
(c) Calcutta could have a teaching hospital.
(d) The poor in Mother Teresa's homes could have several years' worth of rations.

5. In which two magazines did the author publish early polemics against Mother Teresa?
(a) The Nation and Vanity Fair.
(b) Time and Vanity Fair.
(c) U.S. News and Time.
(d) People and U.S. News.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what language was the slogan "In this sign shall ye conquer" written in the Haitian publication?

2. What did Malcolm Muggeridge write that the supernatural is an infinite projection of?

3. What is inscribed over the door of the offices of the Missionaries of Charity on Bose Road?

4. Which group awarded Mother Teresa with a medallion inscribed with, "Food For All: Holy Year 1975"?

5. In Catholicism, what is a woman experiencing danger in childbirth supposed to do?

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