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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. Who arrives in Quito causing Jim both joy and anxiety?
(a) Elisabeth Howard.
(b) Dr. Hugo Cevallos.
(c) Dona Bacha.
(d) Dee Short.

2. What does Jim admit is an easier way of life than the one he has been chosen by God?
(a) Teaching high school students.
(b) Preaching from the pulpit.
(c) Ministering to prisoners.
(d) A career in business.

3. Who does Jim ask to help build a school along the Bobonaza River?
(a) Pete Fleming.
(b) Abdon.
(c) Ed McCully.
(d) Elisabeth Howard.

4. Who approaches Jim and Pete as they eat in the port restaurant?
(a) Stevedores.
(b) A prostitute.
(c) Dr. Tidmarsh.
(d) The captain.

5. What happens by the time Jim finalizes his passport to Ecuador?
(a) He's lost the lease to his apartment.
(b) The money from his sales have dried up.
(c) Dr. Morey has assigned him to St. Louis.
(d) Ed announces he is getting married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Jim on his way from Oklahoma to Illinois?

2. Who do Jim and Elisabeth spend the Christmas holidays with?

3. What phrase does the missionaries shout from the airplane to the Aucan houses below while flying over Villano?

4. What pattern appears to be happening Jim?

5. How does Jim reason that God takes young and old into His Kingdom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Jim and Elisabeth concur about modern weddings?

2. What happens when Elisabeth is believed to have contracted tuberculosis?

3. What does Jim realize upon teaching and learning language with the locals?

4. What happens when Jim prays that God will give him some signal for his departure?

5. Describe what happens when the ship makes port at Puna and the men disembark.

6. What are some of the everyday situations aboard Santa Juana that emphasize God's abundant blessings for Jim?

7. What are some of the responsibilities Jim has while living in Shandia?

8. What is the significance for Jim of Paul's passage to Corinthians, "it is a matter of share and share alike"?

9. What happens when Jim and Ed decide to help the missionary teacher in Arajuno?

10. What does Jim mean when he tells Elisabeth the churches are "still hollow with reality?"

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