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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dave feel when he saw the picture in the magazine?
(a) He felt he should become a police officer.
(b) Disgust.
(c) To go and help the teenagers.
(d) To help the teenagers in his town.

2. Why do members of the Rebel gang decide Dave is okay?
(a) He has money to give them.
(b) He has the same ethnic background.
(c) He drives a beat up car.
(d) He has had trouble with the police when at the courthouse.

3. What does Dave say putting his vision into place will require?
(a) Being able to speak Spanish.
(b) A series of miracles.
(c) 2.3 million dollars.
(d) Moving his family to New York.

4. Who was healed through prayer?
(a) Dave's grandmother.
(b) Dave.
(c) Dave's father.
(d) Dave's brother.

5. What happens at Dave's first attempt at street preaching?
(a) He is shot at.
(b) An entire gang is converted.
(c) Someone throws rotten fruit at him.
(d) He is arrested.

6. To whom does Dave speak when he leaves the courthouse?
(a) The press.
(b) The teenagers' parents.
(c) No one.
(d) His wife.

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

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

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

10. What happens at the courthouse when Dave returns with all the signatures?
(a) He is given a form for his pastor to fill out.
(b) He is refused permission.
(c) He goes in to see the boys.
(d) He is mugged and loses all the signatures.

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

12. What does Dave say are three main activities of gangs?
(a) Numbers racket, murder and drugs.
(b) Violence, illicit sex, drug dealing.
(c) Illicit sex, money laundering and drugs.
(d) Dancing, drinking and sex.

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

14. What does Dave imagine by the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Putting a new church in gang territory.
(b) A network of preachers hanging out in the gangs.
(c) Building a place for teenagers.
(d) Visiting gang members in prison.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what had the teenagers been arrested?

2. Where did Dave live at the beginning of the book?

3. Who does Dave encounter when he goes to meet the Grand Gangsters Incorporated?

4. How does Dave feel about his initial conversions?

5. What does Dave do when he first arrives back in New York?

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