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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim remind Elisabeth that she has done before the Lord?
(a) She has promised to be an obedient supplicant.
(b) She has committed herself first and foremost to the Lord.
(c) She has committed to finish her education in anticipation for future ministry.
(d) She has promised to remain in the States.

2. What missionaries does Jim maintain correspondence with?
(a) Hudson Taylor and J.G. Paton.
(b) Wilfred Tidmarsch and Rowland Hill.
(c) Omar Khayyam and John Masefield.
(d) Van Ryn and Broadbent.

3. What are one of his goals is as Jim becomes more involved in group activities during his senior year?
(a) He wants to enjoy many college activities before he graduates.
(b) He wants to minister to people in a variety of spiritual levels.
(c) He wants to assume more leadership opportunities.
(d) He wants to learn how to live independently for his impending ministry.

4. Whose diary does Jim begin to read the summer after he leaves Wheaten College?
(a) John Masefield.
(b) David Brainerd.
(c) Omar Khayyam.
(d) Harry Ironside.

5. Why doesn't Jim want to spend several weeks away from his family with his friends Dick Fisher and Dutch?
(a) He needs to help his brother's garbage business.
(b) He needs to help his ailing mother.
(c) He has responsibilities at Gospel Hall.
(d) He needs to help his father's carpentry business.

6. 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 believing it's God's way.
(c) He turns it down to teach at another school.
(d) He signs the contract for one more year.

7. What does Jim believe to be the Lord's purpose for the Midwest gospel trip?
(a) The Word of God is present in all things great and small.
(b) God work miraculous deeds.
(c) The truth of scripture will supercede all else.
(d) The hand of God is working as an agent of change.

8. What is Jim grateful the Lord has given him over the past four years in college?
(a) Thanksgiving for God's grace.
(b) Public duty to service.
(c) Non-conformity to fit into established religion.
(d) Peace and wisdom.

9. What age does Fred Elliot become a Christian?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Fifteen.

10. Where do the Elliot and MacAliister families meet?
(a) Lutheran kirk.
(b) Anglican church.
(c) Presbyterian kirk.
(d) Baptist church.

11. What theme runs central between conversations between Jim and his father while painting together?
(a) Ministering in places far from home.
(b) Ministering to young fellows for God's work.
(c) Conservatism in the classroom.
(d) Nonconformity.

12. What two central themes in the book override all other relationships?
(a) Peace and prosperity.
(b) Truth and love.
(c) Love and commitment.
(d) Honor and tradition.

13. What career does Jim pray God will grant him the opportunity to pursue?
(a) Spanish instruction.
(b) Pastor of a church.
(c) Greek instructor.
(d) Foreign missions.

14. What does Jim experience during a gospel team trip across the Midwest with Dave Howard, Roger Lewis, and Verd Holstein?
(a) An apparition of Elisabeth..
(b) A Christian rebirth.
(c) His own spiritual resistance to letting go.
(d) His spiritual awakening to God's glory.

15. What does Jim's prayer in his journal foreshadow?
(a) He will be an agent of change whether God wills it or not.
(b) He has now achieved his approved unto God degree.
(c) He will either live or die in the name of the Lord.
(d) He will be the fork in the road testing people on their true beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim Elliot believe about eternity?

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

3. Why does Jim take his exams early?

4. What does Jim learn when he returns from Mexico?

5. What are two struggles Jim is undergoing?

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