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

2. 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) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
(d) Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.

3. 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.

4. What is the ratio of women to men in the Student Foreign Missions?
(a) 5:1.
(b) 3:1.
(c) 18:1.
(d) 10:1.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Elliot and MacAliister families meet?

2. What happens to Jim when he travels with the Foreign Missions group?

3. What is the reason Jim tells his parents he will not be home for Christmas?

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

5. What gifts do the missionaries offer George and the Aucan women?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the events leading to the marriage of Fred Elliot and Clara Luginbuhl.

3. What is the significance of Jim's comment to Elisabeth that she "bargained for a cross?"

4. What are some of the tenets Fred and Clara Elliot raise their children to believe?

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

6. What is the significance of Jim turning down the offer to act as the business manager of the Tower?

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

8. What events influence Fred Elliot's conversion to God?

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

10. What role does prayer lead in Jim's daily schedule?

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