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

2. What does Jim experience during a gospel team trip across the Midwest with Dave Howard, Roger Lewis, and Verd Holstein?
(a) A Christian rebirth.
(b) An apparition of Elisabeth..
(c) His own spiritual resistance to letting go.
(d) His spiritual awakening to God's glory.

3. Why does Jim want to speak to Bert who has left town on business?
(a) Jim wants to ask Bert about his conflicting feelings for Elisabeth.
(b) Jim seeks Bert's counsel concerning his near death experiences.
(c) Jim wants to know if he may run Bert's garbage business in his absence.
(d) Jim no longer believes he should go to Latin America and is considering going to India.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What biblical quote is the mantra with which Jim Elliott lives and breathes?

2. What does Jim remind Elisabeth that she has done before the Lord?

3. What is the principle characteristic bringing together the unlikely match of Jim Elliot and Elisabeth Howard?

4. What does Jim's mother implore him to do with his missionary work?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jim conclude while attending the 1948 International Student Missionary Convention at the University of Illinois?

2. What is the advantage of Jim's unemployment between doing odd jobs and applying for a substitute teaching position?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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