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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. Whose diary does Jim begin to read the summer after he leaves Wheaten College?
(a) David Brainerd.
(b) Harry Ironside.
(c) Omar Khayyam.
(d) John Masefield.

2. What does Jim spend his lunch hour doing?
(a) Meeting with Dr. Book.
(b) Reading the Psalms.
(c) Attending the Student Missionary Convention.
(d) Lecturing incoming freshman.

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

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

5. What does Jim find difficult for the first time in his life?
(a) Saying goodbye to his brother and sister-in-law.
(b) Leaving his family to go back to school.
(c) Putting Christ's work first.
(d) Putting his wordly accomplishments behind him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim realize walking away from the Convention?

2. Why does Jim become dissatisfied in the Foreign Service Fellowship?

3. What does the missionary pilot report to his wife as he is flying the plane?

4. Besides being drafted, what other dilemma does Jim struggle with?

5. Why does Jim send his childhood friend, Dick Fisher, a terse letter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Jim is invited home with Dave Howard during Christmas,1945?

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

3. What are some of the gifts the missionaries give the Aucans?

4. What are some examples of Jim's high school escapades as a prep test for his service to God?

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

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

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 happens when Jim counsels a fellow student disenfranchised with Christianity?

9. What characteristics of Jim are not typical of a Bible school student?

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

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