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

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

3. Who said, "His emphasis was upon sacrifice, not of worldly goods so much as of family ties?"
(a) Mother Elliot.
(b) Jim.
(c) Elisabeth.
(d) Bert.

4. What career does Jim pray God will grant him the opportunity to pursue?
(a) Pastor of a church.
(b) Spanish instruction.
(c) Greek instructor.
(d) Foreign missions.

5. What principles does Fred Elliot emphasize to his children aside from reading the scriptures to them daily and teaching them to pray?
(a) Stick together as a family in prosperous and difficult times.
(b) Always avoid church legalisms or a list of "don'ts".
(c) Register with your home church.
(d) Spend one year travelling with a preacher.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jim reevaluate during his senior year in college?

3. Why doesn't Jim want to spend several weeks away from his family with his friends Dick Fisher and Dutch?

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

5. What fuels George's curiosity of the missionaries?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Jim and Elisabeth both majoring in Greek?

2. Why is Jim wary of women?

3. What comes of the friendships between the Elliot and MacAllister families?

4. What does Jim learn about his judgment for others by his senior year in college?

5. Describe the event when the male Aucan and two women greet the five missionaries on Curaray River.

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

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

8. What is the significance of Jim sending off his newly married brother and sister-in-law on their honeymoon?

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

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

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