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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 realize is the problem with ministering to all spiritual levels?

2. Since Jim Elliot believes in living his faith outside the pulpit, what is he readily available to do when his peers have questions about God?

3. What does Jim remind Elisabeth that she has done before the Lord?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of Jim turning down the offer to act as the business manager of the Tower?

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

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

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

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

7. What are some examples of Jim's high school escapades as a prep test for his service to God?

8. What is special about Elisabeth's visit to Jim the second week into the fall semester?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Obedience, honesty, and hospitality are family values Fred and Clara Eliot teach their children. The couple considers too much money a curse. What events, individuals, or experiences shaped Fred and Clara's child-raising attitudes? Cite examples of situations that reflect the children following obedience, honesty, and hospitality.

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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