View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What missionaries does Jim maintain correspondence with?

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

3. What does Jim mean when he refers to his "wine of bewilderment?"

4. What is the first breakthrough in making contact with the natives?

5. Where do Jim Elliot's Scottish ancestors settle in the New World?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Jim wary of women?

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

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

5. What happens when Jim is invited home with Dave Howard during Christmas,1945?

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

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

8. What happens when Jim counsels a fellow student disenfranchised with Christianity?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The murder of the five missionaries is widely reported among news outlets throughout the United States. What lessons does this incident teach future missionaries conducting fieldwork? What skills or lessons do you learn from this incident? How would you change the missionary field responsibilities for the future based on this incident?

Essay Topic 2

Jim and his four missionary counterparts are part of the Plymouth Brethern. Research background on the Plymouth Brethern and answer the following questions:

1) How is the organization formed?

2) What is the organization's mission or purpose?

3) What is the status of the organization? Is it in existence today?

Essay Topic 3

Jim wrote, "God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But a flame is transient, often short-lived." In your opinion, do you believe Jim's flame of fire is ever ignited? Given flames extinguish over time, is Jim's death the final extinguisher for his fire? Why or why not? Explain your answer.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 810 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample