Chapter- 14 The Angel of Peace
1. Question: Which festival is mentioned at the beginning of the lesson?
Answer: Christmas.
2. Question: What kind of atmosphere was there during Christmas?
Answer: A merry and joyful atmosphere.
3. Question: Which place was going through a crisis?
Answer: The charity home.
4. Question: What did the charity home usually arrange every year?
Answer: A Christmas party for children.
5. Question: Why was the party in danger of being cancelled?
Answer: Because of lack of money.
6. Question: What would the children miss if there was no party?
Answer: The special Christmas food.
7. Question: Who suddenly came to the charity home?
Answer: A person came in suddenly.
8. Question: What did the person give to Mother?
Answer: An envelope.
9. Question: What was inside the envelope?
Answer: New hundred-rupee notes.
10. Question: How could Mother use the money?
Answer: In any way she liked.
11. Question: What kind of Christmas party did the children have that year?
Answer: The best Christmas party they ever had.
12. Question: Did such help happen only once?
Answer: No, it happened many times.
13. Question: What happened when the doorbell did not ring?
Answer: Mother still managed to collect money.
14. Question: How is Mother’s method of helping the poor described?
Answer: Very simple and practical.
15. Question: Did Mother know where the money would come from?
Answer: No, she did not know.
16. Question: What did she do when a project was needed?
Answer: She went ahead with it.
17. Question: Who is the “Mother” referred to in the lesson?
Answer: Mother Teresa.
18. Question: What is Mother Teresa also called?
Answer: The Angel of Mercy.
19. Question: Name two other titles of Mother Teresa.
Answer: Lady of the Slums and Gentle Mother.
(Also correct: Saint of the Gutters)
20. Question: When did Mother Teresa start her first major project?
Answer: In 1952.
21. Question: What was her first major project?
Answer: A home for the destitute, sick, and dying.
22. Question: What incident inspired her to start this project?
Answer: She saw an old woman dying on the street.
23. Question: What condition was the old woman in?
Answer: She was eaten by rats and ants.
24. Question: What did Mother Teresa do for the old woman?
Answer: She took her to the hospital.
25. Question: Why did Mother Teresa refuse to leave the hospital?
Answer: Until the woman was admitted.
26. Question: What did Mother Teresa ask the municipal authorities for?
Answer: A shelter for the dying poor.
27. Question: Where was the shelter provided?
Answer: Near the Kali Temple in Kolkata.
28. Question: What was the shelter named?
Answer: Nirmal Hriday.
29. Question: How many people are cared for there today?
Answer: About 150 people.
30. Question: How are the people at Nirmal Hriday treated?
Answer: They are washed, fed, sheltered, and allowed to die with dignity.
Answer by Dimpee Bora
