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

2. What do gang members think they will lose if they leave their home turf?
(a) Their money.
(b) Their girlfriends.
(c) Their power.
(d) They don't know the area and could get lost.

3. Where did Dave live at the beginning of the book?
(a) New York.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Pennsylvania.

4. How did the rally go for the first few nights?
(a) It was a spectacular success.
(b) It was moderately sucessful.
(c) It was a failure.
(d) It was cancelled for the first two nights.

5. 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 help the teenagers in his town.
(d) To go and help the teenagers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gwen say people shouldn't pray for?

2. What does Dave say was a prayer-based miracle about getting signatures from the parents?

3. What does Dave say the teenagers really need to do?

4. How does Dave feel about his initial conversions?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did he tell his congregation and how did they respond? Do you think this was the reaction most congregations would have?

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

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

4. How did Dave feel on his journey to New York and what did he fear? Was his fear appropriate?

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

6. What event with Dave's life is scheduled to occur at the same time as the rally? How does she feel about Dave being in New York?

7. In Chapter 8 Dave meets another minister. Who was it and who else does Dave meet through him. Considering how important this person becomes to Dave why do you think it might have been destiny for them to meet?

8. What happens at Dave's first attempt at street preaching? Why do you think it helped him with his mission?

9. What does a mother of a Dragon Gang member tell Dave? Do you think the move on the family's part is unusual?

10. 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?

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