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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. When Yun's mother decided to pray, to whom did she pray?

2. Yun instead told his captors what?

3. When Yun understood God's purpose, what happened?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Twelve, the authorities severely beat Yun. Were the Chinese officials succeeding in squelching the spread of the Gospel? What happened in the prison?

2. In Chapter 1, how did the illness and recovery of Yun's father affect Yun's life and the lives of his family and friends?

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

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

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

6. Why were there no Bibles for Yun to read?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Yun's observations of the Chinese church compared to the Western church. Provide three examples from the book which characterize Yun's opinions. Why were there such marked differences?

Essay Topic 2

Because Yun spent so much time is prison, his family suffered as well. Discuss in an essay how prison effected:

1) His marriage

2) His children

3) His family's reputation.

Cite examples from the book to support your view.

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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