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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What incident from Dave's childhood gave him inspiration to continue his mission in New York?
(a) Seeing a classmate with a bad reputation get killed.
(b) Watching the conversion of a school hood.
(c) His father's healing.
(d) Facing down a childhood bully.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did courthouse security believe Dave to be?

3. What do the gang members think might happen if they converted?

4. What does Dave tell the teenagers at Grand Gangsters Incorporated?

5. What does Dave think teenagers need instead of gangs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dave conclude about motivations for gang activity? Do you think you think there could be other reasons?

2. Who does Dave visit on his way home and what is he told? Do you think it was good for Dave to hear?

3. What happens on Dave's second attempt at street preaching? How do you think his confidence helped?

4. What is the first part of Chapter 5 mostly about? What are the two likely ways that Dave could have ended up with a grandfather like that?

5. What happens when Dave returns to the jail with his signatures? What would you think the chaplain's motivation might be besides what he said?

6. What did Dave's grandfather say about Dave's mission and what do you think his grandfather meant?

7. What happened when Dave left the courthouse? Why do you think Dave felt the way he did?

8. What did Dave do with what his mother said and how did some of the people in his home town react to him? How did his mother's words help him?

9. What does Dave's grandfather tell him about a snake? Explain how this story could be symbolic.

10. What does the author describe at the beginning of the book and what does he feel he should do? Do you think he seemed ignorant about the circumstances?

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