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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. What did the group do together?

2. What is the subject of Acts 1:15?

3. Why did Bilquis decide not to park at a distance from the Mitchells' home?

4. Why did Bilquis think Raishan was frightened by her request for a Bible?

5. Whom did Bilquis want Mrs. Mitchell to identify for her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What attitude of Bilquis' toward visitors was well known?

2. What effect did Bilquis believe it would have on her family if she became a Christian?

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

4. What aspect of Muslim practice provided reassurance to Bilquis?

5. After Bilquis' first dream, what did she feel compelled to do?

6. How did Bilquis accomplish the most difficult thing that she felt God required of her?

7. What honors have Bilquis' family members received?

8. What negative experience preceded Bilquis' baptism?

9. Why does it help Bilquis when Synnove Mitchell tells her the story of the wise men?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In your essay, discuss the differences you see between Bilquis' life as a Pakistani and the life she might have experienced as a Western woman. Use the following questions as the beginning of your thinking: Why does she not drive? Why does she have to ask her servants whether her grandson has eaten? Why does she have to learn from her servants where her family is and what their intentions are toward her? Are these situations governed by cultural mores that are peculiar to her time and place?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay comparing Christianity and Islam as they are revealed in Bilquis' story. Include ways in which the two religions are similar, as well as ways in which they are different.

Essay Topic 3

In your essay, discuss the ways in which Bilquis shares her religious experiences with others and the success or lack of it that she experiences.

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