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

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 Quichuas do not mix with the Aucans.
(c) Oriente was once a volcanic range.
(d) The Aucas are an uncivilized, savage tribe.

2. What does Jim tell his parents to alleviate their fears of doing overseas mission work?
(a) He reminds them he is working with a reputable service organization.
(b) He reminds them the Lord warned his disciples to cast aside familial tendencies.
(c) He reminds them that he will eventually marry and raise a family.
(d) He reminds them that he will eventually return to the States.

3. How do the missionaries know that the Indians understand what they are saying?
(a) The Indians send Dayuma as an emissary.
(b) The Indians leave their lances at the edge of the jungle.
(c) The Indians leave gifts for the missionaries.
(d) The Indians write messages on the beach.

4. What does Jim learn while attending the Summer Institute of Linguistics?
(a) Jim learns to hone his public speaking.
(b) Jim learns how to write and analyze unwritten languages.
(c) Jim learns to communicate with the Aucas.
(d) Jim perfects his Spanish.

5. What happens by the time Jim finalizes his passport to Ecuador?
(a) He's lost the lease to his apartment.
(b) The money from his sales have dried up.
(c) Ed announces he is getting married.
(d) Dr. Morey has assigned him to St. Louis.

6. Where does Jim write Timothy 2:4?
(a) His Bible.
(b) Valerie's Bible.
(c) Elisabeth's yearbook.
(d) Shandia school cornerstone.

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

8. What happens to Jim that tests the couple's resolve in God?
(a) He almost drowns in floodwaters.
(b) He contracts a high fever.
(c) He contracts jungle rot.
(d) He breaks his arm.

9. Why does Dr. Tidmarsh fail to pick up Pete and Jim upon their arrival?
(a) He is detained by a medical emergency.
(b) He has the incorrect day of arrival.
(c) His office is not informed of their arrival.
(d) He does not realize they were coming.

10. What else does Elisabeth compare to Jim's death?
(a) Death of David's son Absalom.
(b) Gettysburg soldiers obedient to their captain's order.
(c) Abraham's sacrifice of his son Isaac.
(d) Soldiers fighting the Battle of Antietam.

11. Who does Jim help lead a Bible study in Norman, Oklahoma?
(a) Ed McCully.
(b) Dr. Tidmarsh.
(c) Bill Cathers.
(d) Dick Fisher.

12. What announcement does Elisabeth's letter contain?
(a) She is returning to her family in Canada.
(b) She is leaving the western jungle to venture to the Oriente.
(c) She is leaving Quito to study the Colorado language.
(d) She is returning to do mission work in North America.

13. What happens to Jim on his way from Oklahoma to Illinois?
(a) He gets in a car wreck and totals his car.
(b) He ends up hitchhiking the entire distance.
(c) His car gets hit a second time by a train.
(d) He runs into Bill Cathers and gets a ride from him.

14. What does Ed McCully write in his letter to Jim?
(a) Ed will be joining Jim in Norman, Oklahoma.
(b) Ed has a position in missionary field work.
(c) Ed is leaving school to live a life completely for Christ.
(d) Ed is transferring to Wheaten College.

15. What does Jim admit is an easier way of life than the one he has been chosen by God?
(a) A career in business.
(b) Preaching from the pulpit.
(c) Ministering to prisoners.
(d) Teaching high school students.

Short Answer Questions

1. After ten days of prayer, what Bible verse speaks to Jim about God's role for him?

2. Who do Jim and Elisabeth spend the Christmas holidays with?

3. Where does Jim believe "goods" are stored?

4. How many boys sign up for school taught by Jim, Ed, and the Christian teacher?

5. Besides his visa, what else is finally cleared prior to Jim leaving for Ecuador?

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