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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jim grateful the Lord has given him over the past four years in college?
(a) Peace and wisdom.
(b) Public duty to service.
(c) Non-conformity to fit into established religion.
(d) Thanksgiving for God's grace.

2. Whose teaching convinces Fred Elliot to "recognize that life is worth living only if given over completely to God?"
(a) Billy Sunday.
(b) Henry Varley.
(c) Harry Ironside.
(d) Donald Munro.

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

4. What does Jim realize walking away from the Convention?
(a) The time is right to propose marriage to Elisabeth.
(b) The time has come to begin his work in the South American jungle.
(c) It is time to change career ambitions.
(d) It is time to leave his post as president.

5. What does Jim place in his last collegiate wrestling tournament?
(a) Third place.
(b) First place.
(c) Second place.
(d) Fourth place.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides being drafted, what other dilemma does Jim struggle with?

2. What does Jim spend his lunch hour doing?

3. Where does Jim send an application for employment as a substitute teacher?

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

5. What does Jim call the underclassmen to do besides "believing" in the Christian life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does prayer lead in Jim's daily schedule?

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

3. What events influence Fred Elliot's conversion to God?

4. What are the weaknesses Jim sees while working for the Foreign Missions Fellowship?

5. What is the significance of Jim allowing Elisabeth to read his journal?

6. Describe the events surrounding the use of guns among boyhood friends Jim, Dutch, and Dick.

7. What comes of the friendships between the Elliot and MacAllister families?

8. Why is Jim wary of women?

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

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

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