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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives in Quito causing Jim both joy and anxiety?
(a) Dr. Hugo Cevallos.
(b) Elisabeth Howard.
(c) Dee Short.
(d) Dona Bacha.

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

3. Why does Jim feel anxious in his correspondence with Elisabeth?
(a) He wants to stay in the United States after all.
(b) He feels he is entangled in earthly possessions.
(c) He feels an urgency to bring the Word of God to others.
(d) He is tired of being unemployed.

4. What do Jim and Pete learn when taking a a survey trip by airplane to the Oriente?
(a) Oriente was once a volcanic range.
(b) The Quichuas do not mix with the Aucans.
(c) The Aucas are an uncivilized, savage tribe.
(d) No one knows how many people have been killed by the Aucans.

5. 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) Men will find unification with other things instead of God.
(c) Science will surpass the Word.
(d) Men will ignore Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the principle characteristic bringing together the unlikely match of Jim Elliot and Elisabeth Howard?

4. What does Jim do to improve his Spanish skills?

5. Why does Jim feel intimidated and ill-prepared in his first job?

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