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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 does Jim do when asked by the school board to teach another year?
(a) He turns it down believing it's God's way.
(b) He turns it down to teach at another school.
(c) He signs the contract for half a term.
(d) He signs the contract for one more year.
2. Besides being drafted, what other dilemma does Jim struggle with?
(a) His anxiety for passing his classes.
(b) His desire to get to the mission field.
(c) His desire to join his brother, Bert, in Latin America.
(d) His desire to see Elisabeth again.
3. What concerns Jim about the temporal world after the announcement of Einstein's Theory of Gravitation?
(a) Science will surpass the Word.
(b) Men will lose focus on organized religion.
(c) Men will ignore Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
(d) Men will find unification with other things instead of God.
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's students are rambunctious and poorly trained.
(d) Jim has never taught high school students.
5. Why is Jim anxious to travel to South America to learn the native language now rather than later?
(a) He fears he is losing the Spanish he learned while in Mexico.
(b) He fears the older you get the harder it is to learn new things.
(c) He believes another missionary will take his place.
(d) He believes he may be transferred to a different mission in North America if he waits.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Jim feel anxious in his correspondence with Elisabeth?
2. What does Jim struggle with upon arrival in Quito?
3. What do Jim and Pete learn when taking a a survey trip by airplane to the Oriente?
4. What does Dr. Tidmarsh teach Jim and the other new missionaries?
5. What does Jim's prayer in his journal foreshadow?
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