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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which groups, does the author mention, have petitioned for the right to be considered true Catholics?
(a) Sexual offender.
(b) Homosexual.
(c) Communist.
(d) Abortionist.

2. What is actually abortifacient in the fundamentalist definition of the term?
(a) Child neglect.
(b) Alchoholism in pregnant women.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Intrauterine contraception.

3. What did Mother Teresa give to Charles Keating in return for his generosity?
(a) A letter of gratitude.
(b) A personalized crucifix.
(c) A tour of her Calcutta institutions.
(d) A PR campaign.

4. "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."
(a) The qualities of sterilization.
(b) The sexual life.
(c) Charity.
(d) Poverty.

5. 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?
(a) Religious schools.
(b) Sexual conduct enforced by celibates.
(c) Charity contingent on the poor's suffering.
(d) Male hierarchy.

6. Who scammed Mother Teresa and many others in a fund-raising scheme run by his newspaper group?
(a) Robert Maxwell.
(b) Robin Fox.
(c) Charles Keating.
(d) John-Roger.

7. What was Mother Teresa's benefactor's sentence for his part in the Savings and Loan scandal?
(a) Fifteen years in prison.
(b) Ten years in prison.
(c) Twenty years in prison.
(d) Five years in prison.

8. What was the name of the first prize the Indian government awarded to Mother Teresa?
(a) Prize of the Miraculous Lotus.
(b) The Ceres award.
(c) International Balzan Prize.
(d) Magsaysay Prize.

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

10. In the Afterword, the author accuses a televangelist of reaching for the _______ of Mother Teresa.
(a) Biography.
(b) Gorgon's head.
(c) Challenge.
(d) Legend.

11. What did Mother Teresa wear when the Vatican awarded her the John XXIII Prize for Peace in 1971?
(a) A medical armband.
(b) Her traditional nun's habit.
(c) A rosary of wooden beads.
(d) An Indian sari.

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

13. Who was the deputy district attorney who wrote a letter to Mother Teresa?
(a) Paul Turley.
(b) Lance Ito.
(c) Charles Keating.
(d) Robert Maxwell.

14. Which award did Mother Teresa receive in Washington D.C. in October 16, 1971?
(a) Good Samaritan award.
(b) Templeton prize.
(c) John F. Kennedy award.
(d) Nobel Peace Prize.

15. What does the Catholic Church attempt to do in states where it is strong enough?
(a) Further its missionary programs.
(b) Enforce doctrine.
(c) Veto political candidates.
(d) Make laws for believers and nonbelievers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author propose in the Afterword will unite against any version of "secular humanist" enlightenment?

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

3. In Judaism, what is a woman experiencing danger in childbirth supposed to do?

4. What country has to seek an accommodation for its huge Protestant-majority province?

5. Which award, worth a quarter of a million lire, was presented to Mother Teresa in 1979 by the president of Italy?

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