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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sheep—Destined for the Altar.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What principles does Fred Elliot emphasize to his children aside from reading the scriptures to them daily and teaching them to pray?
(a) Stick together as a family in prosperous and difficult times.
(b) Spend one year travelling with a preacher.
(c) Register with your home church.
(d) Always avoid church legalisms or a list of "don'ts".

2. What does Jim Elliot make clear to his peers although he is not drafted?
(a) He would never serve in the Navy.
(b) He would take a conscientious objector stance.
(c) He would only enter the armed forces as an officer.
(d) He would willingly be drafted.

3. What does Fred Elliot do in his young adult years?
(a) Begins preaching at a Presbyterian kirk.
(b) Goes back to school.
(c) Travels with the preacher Harry Ironside.
(d) Opens a successful carpentry business.

4. 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 see Elisabeth again.
(d) His desire to join his brother, Bert, in Latin America.

5. How does Jim improve his Spanish speaking skills during the summer of his sophomore year?
(a) He begins teaching 150 children.
(b) He lives with a Mexican family.
(c) He speaks only Spanish to Ron Harris.
(d) He hitchhikes across Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Elliot and MacAliister families meet?

2. What does Jim fear more than being expelled from the public speaking club?

3. Why does Fred Elliot quit school and become an avid reader?

4. How many missionaries wait with Jim Elliot to see if George returns from the jungle?

5. Where does Jim go at the end of 1948?

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