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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What concerns Jim about the temporal world after the announcement of Einstein's Theory of Gravitation?
(a) Science will surpass the Word.
(b) Men will find unification with other things instead of God.
(c) Men will lose focus on organized religion.
(d) Men will ignore Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

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

4. What is Jim's preeminent goal when he enters Wheaten College?
(a) To stay wholly committed to God.
(b) To enter the foreign missionary.
(c) To graduate with a degree in ministry.
(d) To sacrifice extracurricular activities that interfere with his studies.

5. What is the problem Jim finds with attendees at the Missionary Convention?
(a) They do not have enough time to complete their goals.
(b) There are not enough attendees.
(c) There is too much paperwork.
(d) They lack zeal and action.

6. At what point in Jim Elliot's life does the Prologue begin?
(a) His college years.
(b) His death.
(c) His birth.
(d) His marriage.

7. Besides being drafted, what other dilemma does Jim struggle with?
(a) His desire to join his brother, Bert, in Latin America.
(b) His anxiety for passing his classes.
(c) His desire to get to the mission field.
(d) His desire to see Elisabeth again.

8. What age does Jim Elliot tell his mother, Clara, that he has been saved by Jesus?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Eight.
(d) Seven.

9. What does Jim mean when he refers to his "wine of bewilderment?"
(a) He is not sure whether to serve as a missionary in Ecuador or Peru.
(b) He struggles with the understanding that one can have a relationship with God and another human being.
(c) He has many exciting possibilities of action for the Lord but not enough time to fulfill them.
(d) He does not understand why Christians are so ordinary and make no impact.

10. Whose teaching convinces Fred Elliot to "recognize that life is worth living only if given over completely to God?"
(a) Donald Munro.
(b) Henry Varley.
(c) Harry Ironside.
(d) Billy Sunday.

11. What does Jim place in his last collegiate wrestling tournament?
(a) First place.
(b) Second place.
(c) Third place.
(d) Fourth place.

12. What does Jim's mother implore him to do with his missionary work?
(a) Stay in the United States.
(b) Work along side his brother, Bert, in Latin America.
(c) Discuss his field assignment with Elisabeth.
(d) Take one year off from making any decisions about missionary work.

13. Who introduces Jim to Elisabeth?
(a) Dr. Book.
(b) Dick Fisher.
(c) Ron Harris.
(d) Dave, Elisabeth's brother.

14. What biblical quote is the mantra with which Jim Elliott lives and breathes?
(a) For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord.
(b) Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
(c) Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.
(d) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

15. What gifts do the missionaries offer George and the Aucan women?
(a) Food and water.
(b) Books and medicine.
(c) Food and supplies.
(d) Medicine and water.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jim go with his friend Ron Harris during the summer of his sophomore year?

2. What are one of his goals is as Jim becomes more involved in group activities during his senior year?

3. Aside from his fervent belief in God, what other factor diminishes Jim's popularity with his peers?

4. Who said, "His emphasis was upon sacrifice, not of worldly goods so much as of family ties?"

5. What name does Jim call Elisabeth?

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