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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Dave's church help him in his quest?
(a) Packed his car with food.
(b) Took his children to care for while he was gone.
(c) Prayed with him.
(d) Took up a collection to cover expenses.

2. What does Dave decide is the reason teenagers join gangs?
(a) They like the violence.
(b) To rebell against their parents.
(c) Out of a sense of deep loneliness and feeling unloved.
(d) They like the drugs.

3. What does Dave eventually receive when back at home?
(a) A plea from one of the teenager's mother.
(b) A letter from the judge.
(c) A call to move to a different church.
(d) Divine guidance.

4. Why does Dave need signatures from the parents of the seven boys?
(a) To be allowed to send them Bibles.
(b) To be allowed to write them.
(c) To officially appoint him as their chaplain.
(d) To visit them in jail.

5. What do the gang members think might happen if they converted?
(a) They would have to get a job.
(b) They might cry.
(c) They would be poor.
(d) They would have to get married.

6. What do gang members think they will lose if they leave their home turf?
(a) Their power.
(b) Their money.
(c) Their girlfriends.
(d) They don't know the area and could get lost.

7. How do the gang members feel about attending the rally?
(a) Reluctant.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Excited.
(d) Hostile.

8. Who does Dave encounter when he goes to meet the Grand Gangsters Incorporated?
(a) Angelo.
(b) Belinda.
(c) Sonny.
(d) Maria.

9. What does Dave say was a prayer-based miracle about getting signatures from the parents?
(a) Being guided to the front door of one parent.
(b) He accidentally ran his car into one parent's car.
(c) Meeting one father's minister.
(d) Meeting all the parents together at the courthouse.

10. What was Dave's occupation?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Pastor.
(c) Welder.
(d) Mechanic.

11. What does Dave say the teenagers really need to do?
(a) Move out of the city.
(b) Start life over.
(c) Start going to school.
(d) Start going to church.

12. Who does Dave meet in Chapter 8 who becomes a big part of his mission?
(a) The leader of the Guys and Tails gang.
(b) Nicky Cruz.
(c) Reverend Ortez.
(d) The chief of police.

13. How does Gwen see his initial conversions?
(a) She takes a wait and see attitude.
(b) As miracles.
(c) She is dubious.
(d) She thinks it was too fast.

14. Why was Dave uneasy about New York City?
(a) He had a poor sense of direction and would get lost easily.
(b) He had read it was full of crime.
(c) He was very sheltered from a rural area.
(d) He had an old friend he'd fought with who lived there.

15. How do the gangs feel about Dave's trouble with the police?
(a) It gives him respect.
(b) It means nothing because it wasn't a real crime.
(c) It makes him look silly.
(d) He can't be a real preacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does his grandfather remember about a snake?

2. What happens at Dave's first attempt at street preaching?

3. Who does Dave visit on his way back to his home after his first visit to New York?

4. What entire gang came forward for conversion the last night?

5. How does Dave feel after the first day at the courthouse?

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