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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why are Jim's parents upset that he turns down the opportunity to be a business manager?
(a) The position is a paid cooperative education.
(b) The position would be a plus on his resume.
(c) The position leads to an internship after college.
(d) The position offers free tuition for a year and six grade points.

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 assume more leadership opportunities.
(c) He wants to minister to people in a variety of spiritual levels.
(d) He wants to learn how to live independently for his impending ministry.

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

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

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

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

8. How many children do John and Margaret Elliot have?
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seven.
(d) Nine.

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

10. Where does Jim go with his friend Ron Harris during the summer of his sophomore year?
(a) Nicaragua.
(b) Ecuador.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Honduras.

11. Where does Jim go at the end of 1948?
(a) Student Missionary Convention at the University of Illinois.
(b) Mexico to visit Ron Harris' family.
(c) South American jungle.
(d) Oregon to visit his family.

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

13. What does Jim realize walking away from the Convention?
(a) The time is right to propose marriage to Elisabeth.
(b) It is time to leave his post as president.
(c) The time has come to begin his work in the South American jungle.
(d) It is time to change career ambitions.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jim want to speak to Bert who has left town on business?

2. Where does Jim take Elisabeth during her first visit to his family?

3. Where do Jim Elliott and his missionaries first land to begin their missionary work?

4. What is the principle characteristic bringing together the unlikely match of Jim Elliot and Elisabeth Howard?

5. What does Jim remind Elisabeth that she has done before the Lord?

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