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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Jim become dissatisfied in the Foreign Service Fellowship?
2. Why is Jim anxious to travel to South America to learn the native language now rather than later?
3. What country does Emil Luginbuhl emigrate from upon arriving in the U.S.?
4. What two boys help Bert with his garbage business?
5. What two central themes in the book override all other relationships?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Jim learn while working side-by-side with his father the summer after his college graduation?
2. What is the significance of Jim sending off his newly married brother and sister-in-law on their honeymoon?
3. What is the advantage of Jim's unemployment between doing odd jobs and applying for a substitute teaching position?
4. What happens when Jim is invited home with Dave Howard during Christmas,1945?
5. What is special about Elisabeth's visit to Jim the second week into the fall semester?
6. What is the significance of Jim turning down the offer to act as the business manager of the Tower?
7. What role does prayer lead in Jim's daily schedule?
8. What is the significance of Jim and Elisabeth both majoring in Greek?
9. What are some examples of Jim's high school escapades as a prep test for his service to God?
10. What characteristics of Jim are not typical of a Bible school student?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Some consider Jim Elliot's views on war, law, theology, and philosophy to be iconistic. What is your definition of iconistic? What does this term mean? Cite examples from the book demonstrating Jim's iconistic viewpoint on war, theology, law, and philosophy.
Essay Topic 2
Perhaps more than any other human grouping, the Indian tribe known to its neighbors as the Aucans (the word means "naked savage") exemplifies raw humanity in its unredeemed state. Aside from curiosity of seeing an airplane, why does the three Aucan Indians step out of the jungle to see the missionaries? What do you believed happened when the three Aucans returned to their tribe in the jungle? Why do the Aucans distrust the Indians?
Essay Topic 3
Prior to their final meeting with the Aucans, the five missionaries sang together as they so often did, "We rest on Thee, our Shield and our Defender. We go not forth alone against the foe." The author uses a literary comparison between the missionaries and soldiers fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. Compare and contrast the battle fought by the missionaries and the Gettysburg soldiers. What are similar traits or characteristics by both groups? What are different traits or characteristics of both groups?
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