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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who agrees to provide funding for the rally?
(a) Fourteen churches in the area.
(b) A generous member of the church.
(c) Dave's grandfather.
(d) The city council.

2. What did Dave do at the end of the trial's first morning?
(a) Talked to the bailiff.
(b) Talked to the sheriff.
(c) Talked to the boys' parents.
(d) Pushed his way in to see the judge.

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

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

5. What does the judge decide not to do?
(a) Have an open trial.
(b) Press charges against Dave.
(c) Give the boys bail.
(d) Talk to Dave.

6. How does Dave feel after the first day at the courthouse?
(a) Humiliated and frustrated.
(b) Calm and peaceful.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Exhilarated.

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

8. Who first joins Dave in prayer during his street preaching?
(a) Two parents of gang members.
(b) Maria.
(c) Two gang members.
(d) A police officer.

9. 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.

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

11. What does Dave's wife remind him when he tells her of the rally?
(a) That she has accomplished something too.
(b) That he was sure it was going to be a failure.
(c) That she told him it would be fine.
(d) That he was supposed to be home.

12. From what did Dave take encouragement about his idea?
(a) A parable he knew from the Bible.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) A randomly chosen Bible verse.
(d) His brother.

13. How does Gwen feel about Dave staying in New York?
(a) She is upset.
(b) She is indifferent.
(c) She is glad he's not there.
(d) She gives her blessing.

14. Who is one of the main gang leaders still hostile to Dave in Chapter 7?
(a) Switch.
(b) Nicky.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Alonzo.

15. To what does Dave's grandfather compare Dave's mission in New York?
(a) Healing by prayer.
(b) Perseverance through faith.
(c) The incident with the snake.
(d) Catching a fish and releasing it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the gang member he meets after getting his first signature do with him?

2. How did Dave feel as he drove to New York?

3. As what does Dave's grandfather symbolically see Dave's experience in New York?

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

5. Who does Dave encounter after getting his first signature?

(see the answer keys)

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