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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 miracle happened on the way home from Yun's first teaching experience?

2. What was the name of the man in the cell with Yun in Chapter Ten?

3. When Deling was young, what disease affected her mother?

4. What happened when Yun wanted to read a Bible himself?

5. How did the Christians view the act by Zhang's brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Deling described her own childhood, including her own healing. What did she say God had done in her life?

2. How did Yun begin his study of the Bible?

3. What incident ignited officer Zhang's family to believe in Jesus?

4. How did Deling show her faithfulness to Yun when she was encouraged by some to divorce him?

5. Why was Yun's first preaching experience so unusual?

6. Who was it that eventually intervened for Yun in prison to make his life more bearable? What was his connection to the Christians?

7. After a severe beating, how did Yun believe God sustained him while in Nanyang prison?

8. Why did Yun fear the government's Three-Self Church?

9. What was the reaction of the man in Yun's vision when he learned that Yun would come to his village and teach?

10. What news did Deling bring to Yun when she visited him? What were her friends urging her to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Yun met varying degrees of commitment from Christians as he traveled to different parts of China. Some were willing to risk all, even their lives to help Yun, others were fearful and would not help at all. Why do you think this was so? What could make the responses vary so widely? Did Yun judge those Christians, or harbor bitterness towards them?

Essay Topic 2

Christians are admonished in Romans 13:1 to submit to the governing authorities because God instituted all authorities that exist. How then, do you think Yun could justify his behavior against the government? Cite three examples from the book which explain times when Yun directly defied his government. Is it right to break man's law (the laws of a government)?

Essay Topic 3

Although Yun was imprisoned many times over the years, his mission remained the same whether he was in prison or free. What did he consider to be his main objective? Could the prison walls silence him? Cite two examples from the book where Yun reached out with the Gospel to men with whom he would ordinarily not have contact. What was the outcome? Do you think this helped Yun to understand God's plan for him?

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