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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 fuels George's curiosity of the missionaries?
(a) Their medicine.
(b) Their food.
(c) Their clothing.
(d) Their airplane.

2. What is the first breakthrough in making contact with the natives?
(a) The building of the Puyupungu school.
(b) George stepping from the jungle with two Aucan females.
(c) George's willingness to ride in a plane.
(d) George leading the missionaries into the jungle.

3. What literary genre is Shadow of the Almighty?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Autobiography.
(d) Biography.

4. How many missionaries wait with Jim Elliot to see if George returns from the jungle?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What scripture verse dictates the mindset of Jim Elliot as a teenager?

3. What does Jim realize is the problem with ministering to all spiritual levels?

4. Why does Fred Elliot quit school and become an avid reader?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some of the struggles and flaws Jim experiences in this chapter, The Realized Will?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Jim watch his diet and exercise?

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

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

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