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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the fifteen year old boy dying of a kidney complaint in the Home for the Dying need to save him?

2. What pain killer is most often given in Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying?

3. Mother Teresa once told a terminal cancer patient, "You are suffering like Christ on the cross. So Jesus must be ______ you."

4. In how many countries, "without counting India," did Mother Teresa operate convents?

5. Who said that Christianity is a religion for slaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the premise for the Catholic Church's missionary work?

2. What persuaded Mother Teresa to become a nun at 18 years old?

3. What is upsetting about Mother Teresa's visit with Michele Duvalier?

4. How was the Catholic Church in Haiti at odds with the Vatican?

5. Upon returning to Albania in 1990, what did Mother Teresa do?

6. What is the Church's attitude and policies about procreation?

7. Why does the author write that the name of Mother Teresa's facility, "The Gift of Love," is tactfully named?

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

9. What, according to the Introduction, were the author's difficulties in researching Mother Teresa's life?

10. What obscures the amount of money Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity possess?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author categorizes his work as a polemic. Describe how the book fits in the polemic genre. Explain if the book is an effective polemic, or if it is lacking. Explain if Mother Teresa makes a difficult subject for a polemic, or a perfect one.

Essay Topic 2

Mother Teresa is quoted as saying "...we cannot work for the rich; neither can we accept any money for what we do. Ours has to be a free service, and to the poor." Describe how Mother Teresa is, or is not true to her claim. Consider if Mother Teresa ever appears to be serving the rich, or soliciting money.

Essay Topic 3

Establish the author's reasons for writing this book. Decide if it is our duty to look closely at Mother Teresa and people like her. Describe how the author's concerns about Mother Teresa are or are not validated in the book

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