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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 does the missionary pilot report to his wife as he is flying the plane?
(a) Floodwaters are approaching.
(b) He is running out of gas.
(c) There is another arrival of missionaries.
(d) He sees the natives.

2. Why does Fred Elliot quit school and become an avid reader?
(a) His mother develops asthma.
(b) His father forces him to work in carpentry.
(c) His father dies unexpectedly.
(d) His mother undergoes a difficult pregnancy.

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

4. What scripture verse dictates the mindset of Jim Elliot as a teenager?
(a) Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
(b) A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
(c) Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
(d) For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What age does Jim Elliot tell his mother, Clara, that he has been saved by Jesus?

3. Whose diary does Jim begin to read the summer after he leaves Wheaten College?

4. What does Jim fear more than being expelled from the public speaking club?

5. What country does Emil Luginbuhl emigrate from upon arriving in the U.S.?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Jim learn while working side-by-side with his father the summer after his college graduation?

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

4. Why does Jim rebuke the world's fascination with Einstein's new theory of gravitation?

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

6. Why is Jim wary of women?

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

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

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

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

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