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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maria get off drugs?

2. What does Dave decide to do at the beginning of Chapter 14?

3. What is most likely what Dave would say about faith?

4. Where does Maria go after her conversion?

5. What did they have to do about the plumbing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What eventually happened to Maria?

2. How does Dave feel about Nicky Cruz's revelation and what does he do about it?

3. What was one of the problems that happened occasionally at the center about meals? How was the problem often handled?

4. What does Dave say about the baptism not always freeing an addict?

5. What does the author have to say about the economics of drugs?

6. Describe how Dave finally made a decision about moving to New York?

7. What does Dave describe as his first step in training the young people that would work with him? Do you think Dave had enough experience to be teaching them?

8. Who does he encounter when he arrives back in New York and what does that person tell him?

9. What upset Dave after feeling so great about Nicky?

10. Who inspired Dave to find a place and what did she say would come? Who helped him find a place for the Teen Center and what did they find? Does the place sound like a good building?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Wrapping it all up: Discuss one of the following:

1. What is your overall evaluation of what Wilkerson accomplishes as stated in this book? Use detailed examples to illustrate your points.

2. Do you think Christian evangelism has an overall positive or negative track record? Discuss thoroughly.

3. Discuss an experience in your own life when you "converted" to something with a great deal of enthusiasm (not necessarily religious) and how it turned out.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Compare/contrast Little Jo-Jo with Angelo.

2. Complete character analyses on George, Pedro, and Lucky.

3. Compare/contrast "Grandpap" (Wilkerson's grandfather) to the author, David Wilkerson.

Essay Topic 3

Grandpap recalls seeing a snake shed its skin, a moment he describes as an image of evil transforming into something beautiful. Discuss the following:

1. Do you believe that anyone who is evil can change?

2. How do people who are "bad" become "good"?

3. Is religion the most likely way one can change from being "evil" to "good"?

4. Do you know anyone who has changed drastically from evil to good? How did the person do it?

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