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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. Which religious text is earliest?

2. What percentage of Pakistan is Muslim?

3. What was Bilquis' first supernatural experience?

4. What does Bilquis think is better than prayer?

5. What is the ancient Muslim law about those who fall away from the faith?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Quran teach about Jesus?

2. What teaching of Jesus in Matthew 10 helped Bilquis make her decision about Christianity?

3. Why was Bilquis troubled about her grandson, Mahmud?

4. Why did the Mitchells refer to Bilquis as the "flower lady"?

5. What do the Quran and the New Testament agree on about the Jews?

6. What did Ken Old warn Bilquis about the social consequence of her baptism?

7. What does Romans 10 teach Bilquis that one must do to be saved?

8. What did Bilquis sense as she prayed to God as her father?

9. What negative experience preceded Bilquis' baptism?

10. What did Bilquis experience as a baptism of the spirit?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Much of Bilquis' learning comes from dreams. In your essay, summarize the meaning of the key dreams in her spiritual journey. Tell the lessons she learned from those dreams.

Essay Topic 2

When Bilquis experiences a heart attack, she returns to Pakistan. She is seeking safety where she had once felt unsafe. Why do you think the circumstances have changed? Do you find it ironic that she would go home in a weakened condition? Why or why not? In your essay, discuss the changes in Bilquis' thinking and Pakistan's cultural, religious, and political landscape.

Essay Topic 3

Writers write for different purposes such as to inform, to entertain, or to persuade. In your essay, identify what purpose you think Bilquis had in making her story available through this book. Does it seem to you that she is proselytizing, trying to convert others? Why or why not?

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