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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dreams are Tawdry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim do to improve his Spanish skills?
(a) Barter with local vendors at market.
(b) Substitute teach at the missionary school.
(c) Attends local events and public activities.
(d) Lives with a Quichuan family.

2. Why is Jim anxious to travel to South America to learn the native language now rather than later?
(a) He believes another missionary will take his place.
(b) He fears the older you get the harder it is to learn new things.
(c) He fears he is losing the Spanish he learned while in Mexico.
(d) He believes he may be transferred to a different mission in North America if he waits.

3. Why does Jim feel intimidated and ill-prepared in his first job?
(a) Jim's students are rambunctious and poorly trained.
(b) Jim does not like high school bureaucracy.
(c) Jim has only been trained for missionary work.
(d) Jim has never taught high school students.

4. What does Jim's prayer in his journal foreshadow?
(a) He will either live or die in the name of the Lord.
(b) He has now achieved his approved unto God degree.
(c) He will be an agent of change whether God wills it or not.
(d) He will be the fork in the road testing people on their true beliefs.

5. Why does Jim feel anxious in his correspondence with Elisabeth?
(a) He is tired of being unemployed.
(b) He feels he is entangled in earthly possessions.
(c) He feels an urgency to bring the Word of God to others.
(d) He wants to stay in the United States after all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim mean when he mentions the "Peter the Pumpkin Eater's dilemma?"

2. Who does Jim meet who will help him with his difficulties?

3. What do Jim and Pete learn when taking a a survey trip by airplane to the Oriente?

4. What concerns Jim about the temporal world after the announcement of Einstein's Theory of Gravitation?

5. Who arrives in Quito causing Jim both joy and anxiety?

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