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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 do Jim and Pete learn when taking a a survey trip by airplane to the Oriente?
(a) No one knows how many people have been killed by the Aucans.
(b) The Aucas are an uncivilized, savage tribe.
(c) Oriente was once a volcanic range.
(d) The Quichuas do not mix with the Aucans.

2. 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 the fork in the road testing people on their true beliefs.
(d) He will be an agent of change whether God wills it or not.

3. What does Dr. Tidmarsh teach Jim and the other new missionaries?
(a) Applying a tourniquet.
(b) Setting broken limbs.
(c) Teeth cleaning.
(d) Homeopathy.

4. What concerns Jim about the temporal world after the announcement of Einstein's Theory of Gravitation?
(a) Science will surpass the Word.
(b) Men will ignore Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
(c) Men will lose focus on organized religion.
(d) Men will find unification with other things instead of God.

5. Why does Jim send his childhood friend, Dick Fisher, a terse letter?
(a) Jim believes Dick is missing God's best for his life.
(b) Jim fears Dick is straying from his childhood faith.
(c) Jim fears Dick may sabotage his misisonary work.
(d) Jim fears Dick has gotten himself into terrible debt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jim feel anxious in his correspondence with Elisabeth?

2. What name does Jim call Elisabeth?

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

4. What does Jim do when asked by the school board to teach another year?

5. What does Jim warn Elisabeth before he lets her read his journal?

(see the answer key)

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