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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What school is Clara Luginbuhl attending when she first meets Fred Elliot?
(a) Chiropractic college.
(b) Presbyterian university.
(c) Baptist college.
(d) Wheaten College.

2. 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 one more year.
(d) He signs the contract for half a term.

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

4. Where do Jim's brother, Bert, and his new wife leave for missionary work?
(a) Ecuador.
(b) Peru.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Belize.

5. Why is Jim Elliot cautious about girls his age?
(a) He believes they are frivolous about religion.
(b) He believes they lure boys away from God's true calling.
(c) He believes they cannot understand the complexity of scripture.
(d) He believes they are not worthy to hear God's word.

6. What two boys help Bert with his garbage business?
(a) Jim and Dutch.
(b) Fred and Jim.
(c) Dick and Dutch.
(d) Jim and Dick.

7. What particular hobbies of Jim Elliot prepare his for life in the jungle?
(a) Hunting and camping.
(b) Archery and cross-bowing.
(c) Cooking and cleaning.
(d) Carpentry and woodworking.

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

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

10. How many marriages will be produced between the Elliot and MacAllister families?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

11. How many missionaries wait with Jim Elliot to see if George returns from the jungle?
(a) Seven.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

12. What three things does Jim tell his parents his education is steeped in?
(a) Political science, history and humanities.
(b) Ministry, social science and philosophy.
(c) Culture, music and art.
(d) Philosophy, culture, and politics.

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

14. Why does Jim send his childhood friend, Dick Fisher, a terse letter?
(a) Jim fears Dick may sabotage his misisonary work.
(b) Jim fears Dick has gotten himself into terrible debt.
(c) Jim believes Dick is missing God's best for his life.
(d) Jim fears Dick is straying from his childhood faith.

15. What does Jim Elliot believe about eternity?
(a) Jim believes his love for the Word is eternal.
(b) Jim believes if he doesn't see results from his efforts now, he will see them in eternity.
(c) Jim believes trust is eternal.
(d) Jim believes in eternal hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What career does Jim pray God will grant him the opportunity to pursue?

2. What does Jim mean when he mentions the "Peter the Pumpkin Eater's dilemma?"

3. What happens to Jim Elliot when Dick Fisher's gun accidentally discharges?

4. Whose teaching convinces Fred Elliot to "recognize that life is worth living only if given over completely to God?"

5. What does Jim's mother implore him to do with his missionary work?

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