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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the book, how many years had Mother Teresa been working in Calcutta?
(a) Three and a half decades.
(b) Most of four decades.
(c) Four and a half decades.
(d) Five and a quarter decades.

2. In how many countries, "without counting India," did Mother Teresa operate convents?
(a) Over 105.
(b) 47.
(c) Over 250.
(d) More than 200.

3. Mother Teresa once told a terminal cancer patient, "You are suffering like Christ on the cross. So Jesus must be ______ you."
(a) Praising.
(b) Kissing.
(c) Holding.
(d) Watching.

4. What do patients lie on in the Home for the Dying?
(a) Cots.
(b) Dirt floor.
(c) Rugs.
(d) Stretcher beds.

5. Of the impression his documentary helped to create, Malcolm Muggeridge said, "Mother Teresa's way of looking at life is barren soil for ________."
(a) Ratings.
(b) Copy writers.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Today's populace.

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

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

8. What quote from Lenin is used in the Introduction?
(a) "Democracy is indispensable to socialism."
(b) "Crime is a product of social excess."
(c) "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
(d) "Money has no smell."

9. What did Malcolm Muggeridge claim registered on a photographic film?
(a) The Kindly Light.
(b) Mother Teresa's glow of virtue.
(c) The haloes of saints.
(d) The Spirits of the Departed.

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

11. According to Mother Teresa, what suffers from being too far from Jesus?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) Calcutta.
(c) Pakistan.
(d) Bangladesh.

12. According to the 1994 Lancet article, diagnostic investigations were seldom permissible because Mother Teresa preferred ________ to planning.
(a) Practicality.
(b) Piety.
(c) Providence.
(d) Nurturing.

13. 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) Illusion.
(b) Fundamentalist deceptions.
(c) Scripture.
(d) Wishful thinking.

14. Who said that Christianity is a religion for slaves?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Charles Keating.
(c) Simone Weil.
(d) Christopher Hitchens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the president of Haiti when Mother Teresa's picture with Michele Duvalier was taken?

2. "Intercession the hallmark of sainthood, requires the certification of a ______."

3. "The photographs of _________ are a testament to the vitality of the people, as well as to the beauty and variety of the architecture."

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

5. Who did the doctor say in a 1994 Lancet article, made most of the decisions for the patients in Mother Teresa's Calcutta establishments?

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