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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim Elliot believe about eternity?

2. What is Jim's preeminent goal when he enters Wheaten College?

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

4. What does Jim Elliot make clear to his peers although he is not drafted?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Jim watch his diet and exercise?

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

4. What does Jim learn about his judgment for others by his senior year in college?

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

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

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

8. What is the significance of Jim's comment to Elisabeth that she "bargained for a cross?"

9. What does Jim note is the problem with Americans that missionaries write about?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Cascade Range, extending north and south, divides Oregon into distinct eastern and western regions, each of which contains a great variety of landforms. There is a relatively low mountain system on the western edge of the state. The two-thirds of the state lying east of the Cascade Range consists generally of arid plateaus cut by river canyons, with rolling hills in the north-central portion giving way to the Blue Mountains in the northeast. Fault-block ridges, weathered buttes, and remnants of large prehistoric lakes characterize the Great Basin in the southeast. How does this geographic wonderland prepare Jim for his missionary endeavors? What lessons from nature does Jim learn which are useful for Jim in the Ecuadorian jungle? What lessons can one learn from respecting and participating in outdoor activities?

Essay Topic 2

The first major transition of missionaries emerged from Palestine and spread throughout the Mediterranean world. The apostle Paul became the missionary to the Gentile world. Jim reads considerable works by the apostle Paul. Using the Encyclopedia Britannica or another religion encyclopedia, research the three transitions of Christianity. Discuss which transition the Plymouth Brethren would have been part of. What is significant about this transition? What are the major geographic regions that Christianity spread in this transition?

Essay Topic 3

Perhaps more than any other human grouping, the Indian tribe known to its neighbors as the Aucans (the word means "naked savage") exemplifies raw humanity in its unredeemed state. Aside from curiosity of seeing an airplane, why does the three Aucan Indians step out of the jungle to see the missionaries? What do you believed happened when the three Aucans returned to their tribe in the jungle? Why do the Aucans distrust the Indians?

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