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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mother Teresa say to the author about her orphanage?
(a) There can never be enough.
(b) This is He and not I.
(c) This is where everyone is wanted.
(d) This is how we fight abortion and contraception.

2. According to the Introduction, what did Chinese generals use to "Christianize" their armies?
(a) Firehose.
(b) Barrels.
(c) Water bottles.
(d) Beaches.

3. How many convents did Mother Teresa boast of operating?
(a) 105.
(b) More than 500.
(c) 714.
(d) Just over 350.

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

5. How do the nuns in the Home for the Dying treat used needles?
(a) They are buried.
(b) They are washed in cold water.
(c) They are left in open receptacles.
(d) They are boiled in sauce pans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote an unpublished manuscript entitled, In Mother's House?

3. What were the Bangladesah war in 1971 and the sectarian brushfires in Assam responsible for?

4. Which category of patients is Ms. Elgy Gillespie, author, journalist and sometime editor of The San Francisco Review of books, experienced in caring for?

5. How much money did a former missionary of charity confess was collecting in one of the charities checking accounts in the Bronx?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Malcolm Muggeridge attribute Mother Teresa's use of his donation to?

2. What was Christopher Hitchens' impression of Mother Teresa when he met her in person?

3. What does the author mean by this quote from the Introduction, "If the baffled and fearful prehistory of our species ever comes to an end, and if we ever get off of our knees and cull those blooms, there will be no need for smoking altars and forbidding temples with which to honour the freethinking humanists, who scorned to use the fear of death to coerce and flatter the poor."

4. What is contradicting about Mother Teresa's policy about taking patients to hospitals?

5. What was Mother Teresa's involvement in a Nicaraguan conflict?

6. How are Mother Teresa's patients in the Home for the Dying treated?

7. Why does the author dislike Mother Teresa's campaign for the Church's procreation policies?

8. What is Mother Teresa's solution for abortion, and why is it obsolete?

9. What are causes of Calcutta's overpopulation?

10. Explain what the author believes the poorest of the poor are to Mother Teresa.

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