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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jim fear more than being expelled from the public speaking club?
(a) Leaving Gospel Hall.
(b) Making a political speech.
(c) Incorrectly quoting scripture.
(d) Going to the school dance.

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

4. What does Jim's renewed mind regarding others' behavior foreshadow?
(a) His ability to lead and supervise people.
(b) His awareness that God works in mysterious ways.
(c) His willingness to listen to others when he asks for guidance.
(d) His willingness to let God change him from the inside out.

5. What are two struggles Jim is undergoing?
(a) Understanding how he will be the fork in the road and agent of change.
(b) Releasing earthy possessions and his love for Elisabeth.
(c) Leaving behind his family and his friends.
(d) Understanding the truth of God's Word and man's lack of recognition to His truth.

6. What is the principle characteristic bringing together the unlikely match of Jim Elliot and Elisabeth Howard?
(a) Their attractive looks.
(b) Their unwavering devotion to Christ.
(c) The way they speak to each other during long absences.
(d) Their easygoing demeanor.

7. Why does Fred Elliot quit school and become an avid reader?
(a) His father forces him to work in carpentry.
(b) His mother undergoes a difficult pregnancy.
(c) His mother develops asthma.
(d) His father dies unexpectedly.

8. What is the overall theme presented in the book?
(a) Exploring the language and culture of indigenous people.
(b) The trials and tribulations of missionaries.
(c) One man's journey of Christian faith.
(d) The missionary story of working in South America.

9. 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) Conduct religious conversion.
(b) Explain the preaching of Harry Ironside.
(c) Explain the scriptures to other students.
(d) Quote Presbyterian dogma concerning matters of religious faith.

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

11. 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 believes another missionary will take his place.
(c) He believes he may be transferred to a different mission in North America if he waits.
(d) He fears the older you get the harder it is to learn new things.

12. Where do Jim Elliot's Scottish ancestors settle in the New World?
(a) Quebec.
(b) Saskatchewan.
(c) Montreal.
(d) Ontario.

13. What does Jim tell Elisabeth in his letter to her that God has meant him to do?
(a) God wants him to return to his family.
(b) God wants him to leave the Student Missionary Convention.
(c) God wants both of them to see other people.
(d) God wants him to start his missionary work single rather than married.

14. What happens to Jim Elliot when Dick Fisher's gun accidentally discharges?
(a) Jim narrowly misses being killed.
(b) Jim uses his Bible to deflect the bullet.
(c) The bullet pierces Jim's Bible.
(d) The bullet grazes Jim's leg.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim believe to be the Lord's purpose for the Midwest gospel trip?

2. Besides being drafted, what other dilemma does Jim struggle with?

3. What does Jim begin to think about taking college classes at Wheaten College?

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

5. Why doesn't Jim want to spend several weeks away from his family with his friends Dick Fisher and Dutch?

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