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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 the first parent of the teenage boys tell Dave?
(a) He would never sign.
(b) He had read about him and hoped he would meet him.
(c) He thought his son should be in prison.
(d) He was an atheist and didn't like pastors.

2. Where does Dave go after he leaves the jail?
(a) He gets a motel.
(b) He heads back home.
(c) He goes to New Jersey.
(d) He visits his brother.

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

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

5. What does Dave say was a prayer-based miracle about getting signatures from the parents?
(a) Meeting all the parents together at the courthouse.
(b) He accidentally ran his car into one parent's car.
(c) Meeting one father's minister.
(d) Being guided to the front door of one parent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was healed through prayer?

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

3. From which gang did the seven boys in jail come?

4. What did Dave do at the end of the trial's first morning?

5. Who does Dave meet in Chapter 8 who becomes a big part of his mission?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

5. What was Dave trying to do at the beginning of Chapter 4 and why? Do you think he was being unrealistic?

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

7. 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?

8. How does Dave feel about his first two conversions and what does his wife say? What do you think she meant by her statement to him?

9. 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?

10. How does his attempts to find the parents go at first and what gives him his first break through? Do you think him "stumbling" onto the front door of the father is an amazing coincidence?

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