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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. Why did Deling's mother choose Yun for her daughter to marry?

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

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

4. Why did Yun have to be carried into the interrogation room after his fast?

5. What was the name of Yun's baby boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. In 1983, many church leaders were arrested in what Yun called a "crime wave." How was Yun persecuted and humiliated following his arrest in Shangnan County?

2. How did Deling's mother come to choose Yun as a husband for her daughter? What was she looking for?

3. How did Yun eventually come to own a Bible?

4. How were the traditions of choosing a marriage partner different in the Chinese culture than in Western cultures?

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

6. Did Yun's constant beatings and sufferings in prison make his faith in God waver?

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

8. On the eve of his execution, Huang wrote a letter to his parents. What did it say, and how did he write it?

9. In Chapter Ten, a man named Li was put in Yun's cell with him. How did he become a Christian?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What about Christianity do you think was such a threat to China (and other nations)? Did the violence towards Christians seem to be in balance for the "crimes" committed? Where do you think this intolerance toward Christianity comes from?

Essay Topic 2

One of the basics rights in America is the freedom to worship in any religion we choose. Discuss how it struck you when you first read about the atrocities committed against Christians by the Chinese government. Did it seem fair? Do you think fear was an effective motivator against the spread of Christianity? Why did it work on some people and not on others? Cite examples from the book to support your position.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter Two, Yun wrote that God intervened in his life by healing his father. This is the first of many miraculous healings we read about in this book.

Part 1) Recount from the book at least three different times that Yun attributed a miraculous healing to God. Name the person healed and the circumstances.

Part 2) Did Yun view the healing as a means to an end? What would that end be?

Part 3) Did Yun downplay healings or exalt them? Why?

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