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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Three Challenges to Faith.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jim send an application for employment as a substitute teacher?
(a) A local Christian school.
(b) Goodwill Industries.
(c) A boys' detention center.
(d) Assembly hall.

2. What does Jim believe is a better way to spend his time preparing for field work other than reading books?
(a) Helping his brother Bob build a house.
(b) Returning to Mexico to practice speaking Spanish.
(c) Travel to Peru to work with his brother Bert and his wife.
(d) Camp in the upper Midwest to hone his outdoor survival skills.

3. What happens to Jim when he travels with the Foreign Missions group?
(a) He becomes lost when he cannot speak Spanish.
(b) His car breaks down in Mexico.
(c) He hitchikes with the wrong crowd.
(d) He flees a stalled car before it is struck by a train.

4. Why does Jim choose Greek as his major?
(a) He thinks it will help him to translate the Bible into primitive tongues.
(b) Dr. Book requires all missionaries to study Greek.
(c) Greek was the native language spoken in the time of Christ.
(d) None of the girls study Greek.

5. Since Jim Elliot believes in living his faith outside the pulpit, what is he readily available to do when his peers have questions about God?
(a) Explain the scriptures to other students.
(b) Explain the preaching of Harry Ironside.
(c) Conduct religious conversion.
(d) Quote Presbyterian dogma concerning matters of religious faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim admit is an easier way of life than the one he has been chosen by God?

2. Who does Jim ask to help build a school along the Bobonaza River?

3. What happens by the time Jim finalizes his passport to Ecuador?

4. What do Jim and Ed decide to establish together?

5. What does Jim realize walking away from the Convention?

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