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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Gwen say people shouldn't pray for?
(a) A job and new house.
(b) Anything that is selfish.
(c) Massive conversions among the gangs.
(d) Miracles if they don't believe in them.

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

4. Who does Dave meet in Chapter 8 who becomes a big part of his mission?
(a) Reverend Ortez.
(b) Nicky Cruz.
(c) The leader of the Guys and Tails gang.
(d) The chief of police.

5. Who does Dave contact at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) A father of a boy in the Crisp Gang.
(b) His wife.
(c) His brother.
(d) A mother of a boy in the Dragon Gang.

6. How did some people in his hometown react when Dave returned home?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Disparaging.
(c) Cold and rejecting.
(d) Enthusiastic.

7. What did Dave do after the first day at the courthouse?
(a) Got a motel room.
(b) Returned home.
(c) Talked to a priest.
(d) Looked up his ex-friend in New York.

8. Why do they decide a mass rally would be good?
(a) The television crews would cover it.
(b) To reach a lot of teens.
(c) Billy Graham has them.
(d) The newspaper would report it.

9. Who calms Maria?
(a) Gwen.
(b) Alonzo.
(c) Dave.
(d) Delia.

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

11. Who does Dave arrange for new Christians to see?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) A factory owner about a job.
(c) Ministers in the area.
(d) The police to confess any crimes.

12. What inspires Dave to change his type of preaching for the last part of the rallies?
(a) A talk with his father.
(b) A conversation with his wife.
(c) An encounter with Nicky.
(d) An encounter with Jo-Jo.

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

14. With what does Dave have his first encounter when visiting Grand Gangsters Incorporated?
(a) A switchblade.
(b) Teen sexuality and drugs.
(c) Indifferent parents.
(d) Violence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Dave speak when he leaves the courthouse?

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

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

4. When thinking about returning to New York how does Dave feel?

5. What did Dave feel when he saw the picture in the magazine?

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