Short questions with answers from Nobel Lecture — Mother Teresa
Q.1: Whom should we love to love God as advised by St John ?(XI - ’19)
Ans: As advised by St John, we should love our neighbours to love God.
Q.2: What is Mother Teresa’s point of view about drug addiction among young people ? (XI - ’16)
Ans: According to Mother Teresa, many boys and girls are in the West are given into drugs because there is no in the family to receive them and they are lonely.
Q.3: According to Mother Teresa who are very great people ? (XI - ’17)
Or, Who are referred to as ‘very great people’ by Mother Teresa?
Ans: According to Mother Teresa, the poor people are very great people.
Q.4: “l was hungry — I was naked — I was homeless — I was unwanted”- Who said these words ? (XI - ’14)
Ans: Jesus said these words.
Q.5: What was the age of the boy who wanted to give Mother Teresa some sugar ? (XI - ’15)
Ans: The age of the boy who wanted to give Mother Teresa some sugar was only four years old.
Q.6: What did Mother Teresa desire to do with the Nobel Prize money ? (XI - ’18)
Or, What did Mother Teresa intend to do with the Nobel Peace Prize? ( XI - ’23)
Ans: Mother Teresa desired to do make a home for homeless people with the Nobel Prize money.
Q.7: What according to Mother Teresa, is the importance of a smile ? (XI - ’19)
Ans: According to Mother Teresa, the importance of laughter is that laughter initiates love and lays the foundation for human welfare and mutual cooperation.
Q.8: Why did Jesus become man ?
Ans: Jesus became man to bring the good news of universal love and peace to earth among the poor.
Q.9: Who was the Prince of Peace ?
Ans: Lord Jesus was the Prince of Peace.
Q.10: Why did God give His son to us ?
Ans: God gave His son to us because He love the world very much.
Q.11: “And she died with a smile on her face.” – Who is ‘she’ referred to here?
Ans: Here Mother Teresa refers to a dying lady who was picked up from the street in a terrible condition by Mother Teresa and her sisters.
Q.12: What according to Mother Teresa is the beginning of love? (Xl - ’20, ’18, ’16)
Ans: According to the Mother Teresa, smile is the beginning of love.
Q.13: Why did Mother thank God in the beginning of her Nobel Lecture ?
Ans: Mother Teresa thanked God in the beginning of her Nobel Lecture for the opportunity that they had all come together.
Q.14: Why didn’t the little child eat sugar for three days ?
Ans: The little child didn’t ate sugar for three days because he wanted to share his love with the children at Mother’s home by giving them his share of sugar.
Q.15: “That is the blessing of God for us.” – What is the ‘blessing’ referred here? (XI - ’20)
Ans: The ‘blessing’ is referred to here that the increasing demand of adoption of children by childless couples.
Q.16: Where does love begin ?
Ans: According to Mother Teresa, love begins at home.
Q.17: Why did the professors from the United States come to Calcutta ?
Ans: The professors from different universities of the United States came to Calcutta to visit Mother Teresa.
Q.18: Why did Mother Teresa sometimes find it very difficult to smile at Jesus ?
Ans: Mother Teresa found it very difficult to smile at Jesus because sometimes Jesus could be very demanding.
Q.19: What did Jesus make himself ?
Ans: Jesus made himself as the hungry one, the naked one, the homeless one, the sick one, the one in prison, the lonely on and the unwanted one.
Q.20: How many professors did come from the United States to visit Mother’s House in Calcutta?
Ans: Fourteen professors came from United States to visit Mother’s House in Calcutta.
Q.21: To whom did the mother of eight children offer some rice?
Ans: The mother of eight children offered some rice to the starving children of a Muslim family who were her neighbours.
Q.22: Where, according to Mother Teresa, does Christ reside ?
Ans: According to Mother Teresa, Christ resides among the hungry and the naked, the homeless and the sick, the lonely and the unwanted.
Q.23: What good news did Jesus bring to earth?
Ans: Jesus brought the good news of universal love and peace to earth.
Q.24: Whom did St John call a liar ?
Ans: A person, who claims to love God without loving his neighbour, St John called them a liar.
Q.25: Why did Mother Teresa go to the starved Hindu family ?
Ans: Mother Teresa went to meet the starved Hindu family to give some rice who had been starving for a long time.
Q.26: What was Mother’s object of creating a home for the poor ?
Ans: Mother believed that love begins at home and if we can create ba home for the poor, more and more love will spread.
Q. 27: “I never forget an opportunity” – What was the opportunity she got?
Ans: Mother Teresa had gotten the opportunity of visiting an old age home.
Q.28: How did Jesus Christ show his greater love to mankind?
Ans: Jesus Christ showed his love to mankind by the supreme sacrifice of his own life on the cross.
Q.29: How much money did Mother Teresa receive from a disabled person?
Ans: Mother Teresa received 15 dollars from a disabled person.
Q.30: “She gave me a very simple answer” – Who was she?
Ans: Here ‘she’ was the mother of the eight starving children of a Hindu family.
Q.31: According to Mother Teresa who can ‘teach us so many beautiful things’?
Ans: According to Mother Teresa, the poor people can teach us so many beautiful things.
Q.32: Why was everybody in the old age home looking towards the door?
Ans: Everybody in the old age home was looking towards the door because they expected that their son or daughter would come to visit them.
Q.33: Who was St. Francis?
Ans: St. Francis was a 13th century Italian Catholic friar, deacon, philosopher, mystic, and preacher who born at Assisi and dedicated himself to the service of humanity and nature.
Q.34: Which prayer did Mother Teresa begin her Nobel Lecture with?
Ans: Mother Teresa began her Nobel Lecture with the prayer composed by St. Francis of Assisi.
Q.35: What was Mother Teresa's opinion about ‘abortion’?
Ans: Mother Teresa vehemently abused abortion and regarded it as the greatest destroyer of peace.
Q.36: What did the poor practice for natural family planning?
Ans: The poor practiced natural way of abstaining, of self-control out of love for each other.
Q.37: From where did Mother collect the unwanted children?
Ans: Mother collected the unwanted children from clinics, hospitals, police stations and street.
Q.38: Where was the ‘Nobel Lecture’ delivered?
Ans: Mother Teresa delivered her ‘Nobel Lecture’ at Oslo, Norway.
Q.39: What according to Mother Teresa is the greatest destroyer of peace today? ( XI - ’14)
Ans: According to Mother Teresa, abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace today.
Q.40: What did the man, who was picked up from the drain and brought to the home, say to Mother Teresa?
Ans: The man who was picked up from the drain said he had lived like an animal in the street but he was going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.
Q.41: According to Mother Teresa, what does love have to do to be true?
Ans: According to Mother Teresa, for love to be true, has to hurt.
Q.42: How did Mother Teresa try to check the population?
Ans: Mother Teresa encouraged the poor to adopt natural family planning and thereby tried to check the population.
Q.43: What prayer did Mother Teresa refer to? (XI - ’23)
Ans: Mother Teresa referred to the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi.
**The above short questions and answers are taken from the Nobel Lecture will hopefully help all the students to get good results in the annual examination of class XI.
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