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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jim do when asked by the school board to teach another year?
(a) He signs the contract for one more year.
(b) He turns it down to teach at another school.
(c) He signs the contract for half a term.
(d) He turns it down believing it's God's way.

3. What does Jim realize is the problem with ministering to all spiritual levels?
(a) Jim concedes he does not have time to minster to everyone.
(b) Jim believes he will be rebuked.
(c) Jim sees that minstry is in his hands, not God's.
(d) Jim concedes he is not trained to minister to all spiritual levels.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two central themes in the book override all other relationships?

2. What does Jim fear more than being expelled from the public speaking club?

3. What time does the missionary pilot tell his wife that he will communicate with her again?

4. How many marriages will be produced between the Elliot and MacAllister families?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jim note is the problem with Americans that missionaries write about?

2. How does Bert and Colleen's departure for mission field work in Peru influence Jim?

3. What is special about Elisabeth's visit to Jim the second week into the fall semester?

4. Describe the events surrounding the use of guns among boyhood friends Jim, Dutch, and Dick.

5. What does Jim learn while working side-by-side with his father the summer after his college graduation?

6. What does Jim realize by the middle of his freshmen year at Wheaton College?

7. What are some of the activities Jim, Dave Howard, Verd Holsteen and Roger Lewis do while traveling for the Foreign Missions Fellowship in 1948?

8. What are some examples of Jim living the verse, "Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might?"

9. What is the advantage of Jim's unemployment between doing odd jobs and applying for a substitute teaching position?

10. Why are the Aucans suspicious of the white men?

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