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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4, 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Dave do to decide what he was supposed to do about the picture he saw?
(a) He went into intense, trusting prayer.
(b) He studied books on gangs.
(c) He talked to his brother.
(d) He called the police department.

3. What does Dave's grandfather tell him to remember?
(a) How to catch honey bees.
(b) What to do when faced with a blank wall.
(c) How to talk to your superiors.
(d) A lesson from the Bible.

4. What did courthouse security believe Dave to be?
(a) An assassin.
(b) A defendent's father.
(c) A gang member.
(d) A member of the press.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dave say are three main activities of gangs?

2. What does Dave's grandfather tell him about New York?

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

4. What does Dave get from his church when he decides to return to New York?

5. How many teenagers were in the picture?

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