Missions History Final Exam- Quizzes

Constance Padwick’s primary ministry was _____________.

Question 1Answer

a.

Writing

b.

Being a wife and a mother

c.

Medical missions

d.

Translation work of the Bible

Writing

Samuel Zwemer made Cairo his headquarters and traveled the world doing conferences, raising funds, and establishing work among the Muslims.

Question 2Select one:

True

False

True

________________ method is credited for the rapid expansion of Christianity in Korea.

Question 3Answer

a.

John Nevius’

b.

John Newton's

c.

Alan Horse’s

d.

Horace Allen’s

John Nevius’

_______________’s decision to serve as a missionary in Cairo was troubling to both friends and family as a waste of a brilliant mind.

Question 4Answer

a.

Samuel Zwemer

b.

William Borden

c.

Judas Iscariot

d.

Temple Gairdner

Temple Gairdner

Kanzo Uchimura’s most enduring legacy to Japanese Christianity was found in his _____________.

Question 5Answer

a.

Teaching

b.

Preaching

c.

Prophecies

d.

Writings

Writings

When Maude Cary returned from her first furlough to the United States, she realized that the only home she really knew was in Morocco. 

Question 6Select one:

True

False

True

Padwick believed that one of the most effective means of building bridges between Christianity and Islam was through a common spirituality, or finding common grounds between the two faiths.

Question 7Select one:

True

False

True

The Cowman’s were known for the carefree attitude toward money and support raising.

Question 8Select one:

True

False

False

_________________ is considered the pioneer of Protestant missions to Muslims, even though he was a chaplain of the East India Company.

Question 9Answer

a.

David Brainerd

b.

John Mark Terry

c.

Henry Martyn

d.

William Carey

Henry Martyn

Although Zwemer’s converts were few, his greatest contribution to missions was that of stirring Christians to the need for evangelism among Muslims.

Question 10Select one:

True

False

True

A close associate and lifelong friend to John Mott was ______________.

Question 1Answer

a.

Steven Spiller

b.

Elliott Lowe

c.

Robert Speer

d.

Franklin Beckett

Robert Speer

Amy Carmichael served in _______________ for more than 55 years without a furlough. 

Question 2Answer

a.

British Isles

b.

India

c.

Russia

d.

Japan

India

Lottie Moon served in __________.

Question 3Answer

a.

Ireland

b.

China

c.

Cambodia

d.

New Zealand

China

Lottie Moon is one of the most prominent missionary activists of the nineteenth century.  Her impact was enormous, particularly with ___________________ missions.

Question 4Answer

a.

Assemblies of God

b.

Wesleyan

c.

Episcopal

d.

Southern Baptists

Southern Baptists

Speer strongly supported women in ministry.

Question 5Select one:

True

False

True

One of the biggest attractions for single women to the mission field was ________________.

Question 6Answer

a.

Because there were few opportunities for women to serve in vocational ministry in the homeland

b.

All the single men needed to get married to someone

c.

Fleeing from their father’s authority

a

__________________ was an illustrious college athlete and son of a wealthy Englishman who gave up prestige, wealth, and comfort for the task of world evangelism.

Question 7Answer

a.

Sherwood Eddy

b.

C.T. Studd

c.

Francis Chandler

d.

Michael Butler

C. T. Studd

ALL her co-workers in India, viewing her as a gentle leader, liked Amy Carmichael.

Question 8Select one:

True

False

False

____________________ was a Christian Reformed missionary to Africa who traveled from village to village by bicycle. 

Question 9Answer

a.

Lottie Moon

b.

Edmonia Moon

c.

Johanna Veenstra

d.

Sandy Street

Johanna Veenstra

Probably the only woman missionary whose fame exceeded that of Lottie Moon in the early twentieth century was ___________________.

Question 10Answer

a.

Francis Drake

b.

Edmonia Moon

c.

Claudia Peyton

d.

Amy Carmichael

Amy Carmichael

Missionaries John and Betty Stam, along with their daughter Helen, were ALL executed by their captors in China

Question 1Select one:

True

False

False

Paul Carson and his family somehow avoided persecution and tragedy while serving in the Congo during the Simba Rebellion

Question 2Select one:

True

False

False

When Neill and Bob Hawkins began their work among the Wai Wai in 1949, they were the first white men that many of the people had ever seen. 

Question 3Select one:

True

False

True

Most missionaries from the non-Western world, like the vast majority of those from the Western world, lived and died in relative obscurity, with no great revivals during their lifetime and with no legacies of achievement that commanded later biographies.

Question 4Select one:

True

False

True

John Sung was a Chinese convert that became an evangelist and missionary to many countries in the East and Southeast Asia.

Question 5Select one:

True

False

True

Political turbulence confronted missionaries more and more as the twentieth century progressed.

Question 6Select one:

True

False

True

The twentieth century opened with the __________________ in China that took the lives of more Protestant missionaries than any other crisis in history.

Question 7Answer

a.

Hong Kong Massacre

b.

Shanghai Revolt

c.

Boxer Rebellion

d.

Boston Tea Party

Boxer Rebellion

Elka was a _______________ in the Amazon jungle before converting to Christianity.

Question 8Answer

a.

Witchdoctor

b.

Camel herder

c.

Magician

d.

Farmer

Witchdoctor

Pandita Ramabai was a convert to Christian from a ___________ background.

Question 9Answer

a.

Buddhist

b.

Atheist

c.

Hindu

d.

Muslim

Hindu

Not since the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 had so many missionaries been killed in a single year as the ______________ of 1964-1965. 

Question 10Answer

a.

Mufasa Rebellion

b.

Matewan Massacre

c.

Simba Rebellion

d.

Rafiki Rebellion

Simba Rebellion

Bruce Olson was a missionary to Columbia who wrote a fascinating autobiography entitled ___________________ (the name given to him by the natives).

Question 1Answer

a.

Mickuah

b.

Bruchko

c.

Blanco

d.

Whitey

Bruchko

Jackie Pullinger’s ministry was quite the opposite of Mother Teresa’s, instead of focusing on the poorest of the poor she sought to minister to the ritzy women of China.

Question 2Select one:

True

False

False

God's Smuggler was a popular book written about Brother Andrew, who smuggled Bibles across country borders.

Question 3Select one:

True

False

True

_________________ has arguably been the twentieth century’s premier missionary statesman.

Question 4Answer

a.

John Piper

b.

Ralph Winter

c.

Jim Elliot

d.

Bruce Ashford

Ralph Winter

Mother Teresa is best known for her work among the poor in ________.

Question 5Answer

a.

North America

b.

Russia

c.

China

d.

India

India

Brother Andrew wrote, ____________________ in response to those who criticized him on ethical grounds for smuggling. 

Question 6Answer

a.

Catch Me if You Can

b.

The Ethics of Smuggling

c.

Why It's OK to Lie as a Christian

d.

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

The Ethics of Smuggling

Ken Strachan served as director of the ___________________ Mission, where his leadership blossomed.

Question 7Answer

a.

China Inland

b.

Foreign Board of America

c.

Latin America

d.

None of the above

Latin America

 Helen Roseveare faced very little opposition and persecution while serving in Africa.

Question 8Select one:

True

False

False

In December of 1979, Mother Teresa accepted the ___________________, bringing to the spotlight of the world on her selfless missionary service.

Question 9Answer

a.

None of the above

b.

Academy Award for Humanitarian Aid

c.

Nobel Peace Prize

d.

Position as Pope of the Catholic church

Nobel Peace Prize

______________ was a very well known missionary doctor in the Congo in the late twentieth century.

Question 10Answer

a.

Helen Roseveare

b.

None of the above

c.

Rachel Pache

d.

Claudia Peyton

Helen Roseveare

E. Stanley Jones adopted Brockmans strategy of introducing China to Western science and technology.

Question 1Select one:

True

False

False

 The Sudan Interior Mission never targets any other African countries besides Sudan.

Question 2Select one:

True

False

False

 __________________ established the Sudan Interior Mission.

Question 3Answer

a.

Fredrick Franson

b.

Rowland Bingham

c.

Desmond Dennison

d.

A. W. Tozer

Rowland Bingham

In light of the tragedy in Bolivia in the previous decade with Operation Auca, the mission attempts were cancelled and the Aucas were forgotten.

Question 4Select one:

True

False

False

In addition producing his reference Bible, Scoffield also founded the Central American Mission.

Question 5Select one:

True

False

True

A. B. Simpson had an enormous impact on missions, though he was not a missionary himself, by starting the Christian and Missionary Alliance

Question 6Select one:

True

False

True

From the very beginning, faith missions have been associated with liberal intellectuals. 

Question 7Select one:

True

False

False

__________________ is credited for the formation of TEAM.

 

Question 8Answer

a.

A.W. Tozer

b.

Desmond Dennison

c.

Rowland Bingham

d.

Fredrick Franson

Frederick Franson

E. Stanley Jones began his missionary career in 1907 as an ordained ______________ minister of an English speaking church in Lucknow.

Question 9Answer

a.

Methodist

b.

Baptist

c.

Presbyterian

d.

Wesleyan

Methodist

The Africa Inland Mission was started by _________________.

 

Question 10Answer

a.

Peter Cameron Scott

b.

C.I. Scoffield

c.

A.T. Pierson

d.

Desmond Dennison

Peter Cameron Scott

Carl Becker was a beloved doctor but he considered his primary purpose in Africa to be _________________.

Question 1Answer

a.

Evangelism

b.

Humanitarian aid

c.

Educating African doctor

d.

Starting orphanages

Evangelism

The first missionary radio program was broadcast live on Christmas Day 1931, coming from a 250-watt transmitter located in a sheep shed in ______________.

     

Question 2Answer

a.

Ecuador

b.

Canada

c.

Mexico

d.

France

Ecuador

_________________ was the first pilot to fly for the Mission Aviation Fellowship

Question 3Answer

a.

Clarence Jones

b.

Cam Townsend

c.

Ricky Roberts

d.

Betty Greene

Betty Greene

W. Cameron Townsend started two organizations, Summer Institute of Linguistics and ________________________, which became the largest independent mission agency in the world.

Question 4Answer

a.

International Mission Board

b.

Wycliffe Bible Translators

c.

Foreign Mission Board

d.

YWAM

Wycliffe Bible Translators

Ida Scrudder was raised as a missionary child in India.  She went to America for school and returned to India as a

__________________. 

Question 5Answer

a.

Engineer

b.

ESL teacher

c.

Well digger

d.

Medical Missionary

Medical Missionary

Probably the most famous medical missionary of all time was _______________, a medical doctor, musician, and biblical scholar, whose controversial theological views were widely disseminated in his book The Quest of the Historical Jesus.

Question 6Answer

a.

William Carey

b.

Thomas Johns

c.

C.T. Studd

d.

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

Perhaps the best-known missionary pilot has been ____________, whose role in the Auca tragedy made him (her) a household name in evangelical circles. 

Question 7Answer

a.

Betty Greene

b.

Cam Townsend

c.

Nate Saint

d.

Amelia Earhart

Nate Saint

Clarence W. Jones was a pioneer in using ______________ as a tool for missionary outreach.

Question 8Answer

a.

Radio

b.

Discos

c.

Street preaching

d.

Televangelism

Radio

__________________, like medicine, can be viewed as a twentieth-century missions specialty. 

Question 9Answer

a.

Bible Translation

b.

Humanitarian aid

c.

Disaster relief

d.

Monasticism

Bible Translation

 Today a single MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) pilot covers as much territory in a matter of weeks as David Livingstone covered in a lifetime of African exploration and with much less strain on health and family relationships.

Question 10Select one:

True

False

True