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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 remind Elisabeth that she has done before the Lord?

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

3. How does Jim improve his Spanish speaking skills during the summer of his sophomore year?

4. When Jim hitchhikes home from Illinois to Oregon, how long does it take him to wait for each ride?

5. What does Jim realize walking away from the Convention?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why are the Indians curious about the white men?

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

8. What are some of the gifts the missionaries give the Aucans?

9. What role does prayer lead in Jim's daily schedule?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author notes that the Lord finds it necessary sometimes to narrow one's vision until it is clearly focused. Explain situations in which Jim narrowly focuses his vision while a youth, college student, and adult. Cite some examples from the book demonstrating how Jim's narrow vision broadens. Is this vision broadening a positive or negative influence for Jim?

Essay Topic 2

Some consider Jim Elliot's views on war, law, theology, and philosophy to be iconistic. What is your definition of iconistic? What does this term mean? Cite examples from the book demonstrating Jim's iconistic viewpoint on war, theology, law, and philosophy.

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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