View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Quran always read in Arabic?

2. How long did the mullah pray for Mahmud when the child fell ill?

3. How did Bilquis feel about God when the Mullah asked her?

4. What did Bilquis do to relieve the pressure of decision-making?

5. What was Bilquis' first supernatural experience?

Short Essay Questions

1. What unusual experience did Bilquis have after her sense of being baptized by the spirit?

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

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

4. What future does the Quran teach Christ will have?

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

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

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

8. What feelings did Bilquis experience during her first supernatural event?

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

10. How did Bilquis describe her father?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Various aspects of Muslim life are told as Bilquis' story unfolds. In your essay, list and explain the call to prayer, the murder of the Christian girl, Bilquis' education concerning the Quran, and other details that are taught about Islam in this book.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 917 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample