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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 family member was first to visit Bilquis?

2. What did Luke 14:12 suggest to Bilquis that she should do?

3. What does "Ji" mean?

4. According to Bilquis' epitaph, how did she die?

5. What had Bilquis' surprise visitor noticed that pleased Bilquis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What radical idea did Bilquis decide would revive the Sunday fellowship meetings?

2. What did Bilquis expect her relatives to do when they learned of her baptism?

3. Why did Ken Old tell Bilquis that she had reason to rejoice even while she is sad at their departure?

4. When Bilquis attended a second family funeral, what did the bereaved wife unexpectedly do?

5. Why did Bilquis decide not to replace all of the servants she lost?

6. Why did Bilquis decide to leave a day earlier than she had intended to?

7. What situation did Bilquis allow to make the decision about whether to travel to Singapore?

8. What did Mahmud know about his grandmother Bilquis' Christianity?

9. What pressure did the community put upon Bilquis?

10. What did Bilquis learn when the village woman did not return to thank her for her help?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rather than beginning the story with an explanation of Bilquis' family and social standing, details about her life are revealed gradually. In your essay, quote phrases from the text that make clear the economic and social position of her family. Summarize what you know or can infer about them and their way of life.

Essay Topic 2

Bilquis tells of experiences, such as floating out the window and being shaken from her bed, that are outside normal human experience. In your essay, select one or two of these experiences and give your opinion of these supernatural events. How does she account for them?

Essay Topic 3

As Bilquis' story progresses, both she and the reader sense an impending doom that does not come to pass. She never learns what might have happened to her and Mahmud had she not hurried out of the country. In your essay, discuss this information gap. Is it disappointing to you? Why or why not?

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