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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 ignore Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
(d) Men will find unification with other things instead of God.

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

3. What does Jim do when asked by the school board to teach another year?
(a) He signs the contract for half a term.
(b) He turns it down to teach at another school.
(c) He turns it down believing it's God's way.
(d) He signs the contract for one more year.

4. Why does Jim feel intimidated and ill-prepared in his first job?
(a) Jim does not like high school bureaucracy.
(b) Jim has only been trained for missionary work.
(c) Jim has never taught high school students.
(d) Jim's students are rambunctious and poorly trained.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim warn Elisabeth before he lets her read his journal?

2. Why is Jim anxious to travel to South America to learn the native language now rather than later?

3. What does Jim mean when he mentions the "Peter the Pumpkin Eater's dilemma?"

4. Why does Jim send his childhood friend, Dick Fisher, a terse letter?

5. Who arrives in Quito causing Jim both joy and anxiety?

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