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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 on Reverse Day?
(a) Students may submit their coursework in pig Latin.
(b) There is a role reversal between professor and student.
(c) Students wear their clothes backwards.
(d) There is a role reversal between men and women.

2. Why does Jim become dissatisfied in the Foreign Service Fellowship?
(a) He finds there is an over-emphasis on training and leadership.
(b) There is too much action without much planning.
(c) There are not enough people to handle the workload.
(d) He finds too many attendees lack true faith.

3. What does Jim tell Elisabeth in his letter to her that God has meant him to do?
(a) God wants both of them to see other people.
(b) God wants him to start his missionary work single rather than married.
(c) God wants him to return to his family.
(d) God wants him to leave the Student Missionary Convention.

4. What does Jim learn when he returns from Mexico?
(a) He will need to repeat another semester.
(b) Funds have been provided for him to complete school.
(c) He will need to repeat another class.
(d) Funds will not be available for the entire year.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim call the underclassmen to do besides "believing" in the Christian life?

2. What is Jim grateful the Lord has given him over the past four years in college?

3. Why does Jim set an alarm before attending classes?

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

5. Why is Jim anxious to travel to South America to learn the native language now rather than later?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Jim watch his diet and exercise?

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

7. What are the weaknesses Jim sees while working for the Foreign Missions Fellowship?

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

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

10. What is the significance of Jim allowing Elisabeth to read his journal?

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