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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim experience during a gospel team trip across the Midwest with Dave Howard, Roger Lewis, and Verd Holstein?
(a) His spiritual awakening to God's glory.
(b) A Christian rebirth.
(c) An apparition of Elisabeth..
(d) His own spiritual resistance to letting go.

2. Besides being drafted, what other dilemma does Jim struggle with?
(a) His anxiety for passing his classes.
(b) His desire to get to the mission field.
(c) His desire to join his brother, Bert, in Latin America.
(d) His desire to see Elisabeth again.

3. At what point in Jim Elliot's life does the Prologue begin?
(a) His marriage.
(b) His death.
(c) His birth.
(d) His college years.

4. What does Jim believe to be the Lord's purpose for the Midwest gospel trip?
(a) The Word of God is present in all things great and small.
(b) The truth of scripture will supercede all else.
(c) The hand of God is working as an agent of change.
(d) God work miraculous deeds.

5. What does Jim tell his sister to do at the beginning of each day?
(a) To say her prayers and spend time in the Word.
(b) To help her mother with breakfast.
(c) To do her homework before the rest of the family wakes.
(d) To set time aside to visit Gospel Hall.

6. What two boys help Bert with his garbage business?
(a) Jim and Dutch.
(b) Jim and Dick.
(c) Dick and Dutch.
(d) Fred and Jim.

7. What principles does Fred Elliot emphasize to his children aside from reading the scriptures to them daily and teaching them to pray?
(a) Spend one year travelling with a preacher.
(b) Always avoid church legalisms or a list of "don'ts".
(c) Stick together as a family in prosperous and difficult times.
(d) Register with your home church.

8. What happens on Reverse Day?
(a) There is a role reversal between professor and student.
(b) There is a role reversal between men and women.
(c) Students may submit their coursework in pig Latin.
(d) Students wear their clothes backwards.

9. Where does Jim send an application for employment as a substitute teacher?
(a) Assembly hall.
(b) A local Christian school.
(c) A boys' detention center.
(d) Goodwill Industries.

10. What is the ratio of women to men in the Student Foreign Missions?
(a) 5:1.
(b) 18:1.
(c) 10:1.
(d) 3:1.

11. Why does Hudson Taylor's book confuse Jim Elliot?
(a) Jim wonders how any man can be consumed by a woman.
(b) Jim wonders how a man satisfied by God's grace can still yearn to be loved by a woman.
(c) Jim wonders how he can be an agent of change.
(d) Jim wonders how one man could establish 250 mission stations.

12. How many children do John and Margaret Elliot have?
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seven.
(d) Nine.

13. What does Jim reevaluate during his senior year in college?
(a) He institutes a new "code of don'ts."
(b) He evaluates how he views the behavior of others.
(c) He evaluates the best way to serve the Lord.
(d) He evaluates his relationship with Elisabeth.

14. What activity does Jim Elliot limit besides maintaining a devotion to prayer?
(a) Eating foods like desserts and starches.
(b) Staying up late hours.
(c) Participating in wrestling.
(d) Going to political rallies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim Elliot bring to school in his backpack with his school books?

2. Why does Jim want to speak to Bert who has left town on business?

3. What does Jim's renewed mind regarding others' behavior foreshadow?

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

5. Where does Jim go at the end of 1948?

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