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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 believe is the work of Satan?

2. Besides being drafted, what other dilemma does Jim struggle with?

3. What country does Emil Luginbuhl emigrate from upon arriving in the U.S.?

4. What are one of his goals is as Jim becomes more involved in group activities during his senior year?

5. What gifts do the missionaries offer George and the Aucan women?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why is Jim wary of women?

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

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

9. What are some of the tenets Fred and Clara Elliot raise their children to believe?

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

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 2

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 3

The primary purpose of missionary effort is to plant Christian churches in remote, indigenous areas. The specific missionary goal is to help these emerging churches become self-propagating, self-governing, and self-supporting. In your opinion, does Jim Elliot succeed in this missionary goal? Cite examples from the book to support your answer.

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