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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dave teach the young recruits first?
(a) How to answer questions.
(b) How to preach.
(c) How to convert someone.
(d) About the world of the gangs.

2. Who does Dave encounter after getting his first signature?
(a) Angelo Morales.
(b) Nicki Bandon.
(c) Pablo Gonzales.
(d) Esperanza Martinez.

3. What did Dave say came very quickly in regard to the building?
(a) Too many teenagers to fill it.
(b) The note due on the second mortgage.
(c) Building inspectors.
(d) Property taxes.

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

5. What incident could be the climax of the book's main theme?
(a) The opening of twelve new Challenge Centers that year.
(b) Wilkerson moving back to Pennsylvania with the Teen Center left in the capable hands of the ex-addicts.
(c) There is no real climax to the book.
(d) The money for the mortgage arriving.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Nicky tell him when he encounters him?

3. What kind of prayer did Dave's grandfather tell him to practice?

4. What does Dave say putting his vision into place will require?

5. What does Wilkerson learn about how addicts at the center stay off drugs successfully?

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