Q 01/05

In which city, then part of the Ottoman Empire, was Mother Teresa born in 1910?

A) Tirana

B) Skopje

C) Sarajevo

D) Pristina

Answer · why

B) Skopje

The city is now the capital of North Macedonia, and it opened a Memorial House in her honour in 2009.

Q 02/05

What was Mother Teresa's ethnic background?

A) Greek

B) Serbian

C) Albanian

D) Bulgarian

Answer · why

C) Albanian

She was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu; Gonxhe means "flower bud" in Albanian.

Q 03/05

What was Mother Teresa's given name at birth?

A) Drita Marija Hoxha

B) Teuta Vjollca Kelmendi

C) Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu

D) Lule Ardita Berisha

Answer · why

C) Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu

Anjezë is a cognate of Agnes; she considered 27 August, the day of her baptism, her "true birthday".

Q 04/05

Which religious order did the 18-year-old Anjezë travel to Ireland to join in 1928?

A) The Ursulines

B) The Sisters of Loreto

C) The Sisters of Mercy

D) The Carmelites

Answer · why

B) The Sisters of Loreto

She went to Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham to learn English, the language of instruction at the order's schools in India, and never saw her mother again.

Q 05/05

Mother Teresa chose her religious name in honour of which saint?

A) Teresa of Ávila

B) Catherine of Siena

C) Clare of Assisi

D) Thérèse de Lisieux

Answer · why

D) Thérèse de Lisieux

Because another nun already had that name, she took the Spanish spelling, Teresa.