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

Skopje, then Ottoman Üsküp and now the capital of North Macedonia, was her home until she left at 18 to become a missionary nun.

Q 02/05

Which US president, handing Mother Teresa the Medal of Freedom, joked she might melt it down for the poor?

A) Jimmy Carter

B) Ronald Reagan

C) George H. W. Bush

D) Bill Clinton

Answer · why

B) Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan made the joke at the White House; she had skipped the main ceremony a month earlier because, he said, she was busy with her everyday wor...

Q 03/05

Which saint's name was the future Mother Teresa given at baptism, before she took her religious name?

A) Helena

B) Clara

C) Agnes

D) Lucia

Answer · why

C) Agnes

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu felt a call to religious life at 12 and left home at 18, taking the name Teresa only when she became a nun.

Q 04/05

Which religious order did the 18-year-old future Mother Teresa 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

The Sisters of Loreto taught in English at their schools in India, so her first stop was their abbey near Dublin; she sailed for Calcutta within month...

Q 05/05

Mother Teresa took her religious name from Saint Thérèse, a young Carmelite nun from which French town?

A) Lourdes

B) Avignon

C) Orléans

D) Lisieux

Answer · why

D) Lisieux

Lisieux's Thérèse, not the older Teresa of Ávila, was her model; the Church had named Thérèse patron of the missions in 1927, a year before the future...