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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dreams are Tawdry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Jim anxious to travel to South America to learn the native language now rather than later?
(a) He believes he may be transferred to a different mission in North America if he waits.
(b) He fears he is losing the Spanish he learned while in Mexico.
(c) He believes another missionary will take his place.
(d) He fears the older you get the harder it is to learn new things.

2. What does Jim warn Elisabeth before he lets her read his journal?
(a) It is a devotional for his future children.
(b) It has very few references to her.
(c) It contains passages which may make her upset.
(d) It is a book of remembrance.

3. What concerns Jim about the temporal world after the announcement of Einstein's Theory of Gravitation?
(a) Men will lose focus on organized religion.
(b) Science will surpass the Word.
(c) Men will find unification with other things instead of God.
(d) Men will ignore Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

4. What does Dr. Tidmarsh teach Jim and the other new missionaries?
(a) Homeopathy.
(b) Applying a tourniquet.
(c) Teeth cleaning.
(d) Setting broken limbs.

5. What does Jim struggle with upon arrival in Quito?
(a) Food and water.
(b) The accomodations.
(c) Lack of modern amenities.
(d) His Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jim meet who will help him with his difficulties?

2. Besides being drafted, what other dilemma does Jim struggle with?

3. What name does Jim call Elisabeth?

4. What do Jim and Pete learn when taking a a survey trip by airplane to the Oriente?

5. What does Jim do when asked by the school board to teach another year?

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