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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Dave invite Nicky to speak?
(a) A suburban church.
(b) The Shriner's auditorium.
(c) The youth center.
(d) At his church in Pennsylvania.

2. What does Nicky talk about from his life before he met Dave?
(a) Abandonment, violence, confrontation, and anger.
(b) Wanting to kill someone.
(c) Having some hope.
(d) Robbing banks.

3. With whom does Wilkerson speak to about Pentecost?
(a) A Rabbi.
(b) A Roman Catholic priest.
(c) His wife.
(d) A group of psychologists studying drug addiction.

4. What seemingly paradoxical statement does Wilkerson make at the opening of Chapter 22?
(a) The baptism of the Holy Spirit traps the one who experiences it.
(b) Life is not just being drug free.
(c) Being drug free without God is just another trap.
(d) God is not good.

5. How does Wilkerson research the means of staying off drugs?
(a) By talking to a drug rehab counselor.
(b) By asking cops.
(c) By reading the DSM2.
(d) By asking successfully recovering addicts.

6. What term does the author explain in Chapter 21?
(a) Being baptized into the Holy Spirit.
(b) Off the train.
(c) Power of prayer.
(d) On the wagon.

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

8. What did the church do when Nicky was finished speaking?
(a) Asks him to join their church.
(b) Takes up a collection for him.
(c) Sponsors him for college.
(d) Tells him to get a job.

9. What does Wilkerson carefully analyze?
(a) How a teen becomes an addict.
(b) How to help families of small children to avoid gang problems.
(c) How to make evangelism more effective.
(d) How to motivate gang members to go to church.

10. What did Dave find out shortly after his encounter with Nicky?
(a) Gwen was ill and he needed to return home.
(b) Nicky dropped out of school in the seventh grade.
(c) One of his early converts had been forced back into the gangs.
(d) His grandfather was dying.

11. What does Wilkerson learn about how addicts at the center stay off drugs successfully?
(a) By prayer.
(b) By asking their parents for help.
(c) By attending church and school.
(d) By being baptized into the Holy Spirit.

12. What is Dave considering in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) Going back to Pennsylvania.
(b) Moving his family to New York.
(c) Starting a television evangelical show.
(d) Starting a teen center.

13. What was the address of Dave's building?
(a) 416 Clinton.
(b) 535 Broad.
(c) 614 Main.
(d) 5534 145th. Ave.

14. What does Dave say about tears from crying?
(a) They have a cleansing power.
(b) They are a minor part of conversion.
(c) They are unmanly.
(d) They don't have to happen.

15. What does Nicky say he remembers Dave first said to him?
(a) He was a sinner.
(b) He needed to turn himself around.
(c) He was going to hell.
(d) He was loved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nicky leading a prayer service inspire a young man to do?

2. How was a door opened for Dave to return to New York?

3. How does Dave describe their financing for the building?

4. What did Dave figure out about conversion and gang members?

5. What was the ornamentation on the fireplace?

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