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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dave feel as he drove to New York?

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

3. Who does Dave visit on his way back to his home after his first visit to New York?

4. How did the rally go for the first few nights?

5. How does Gwen feel about Dave staying in New York?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

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

6. How will Dave be able to fund a rally? Explain why someone of faith might say this is a case of "God will provide."

7. 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?

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

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

10. What did Dave do on his first visit to the courthouse and how did that come out? Were you surprised at the outcome?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author takes a very straightforward, simple approach to telling his story. There are no poetic or literary embellishments. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think the author deliberately chose the particular writing style for a reason?

2. Does the style help or hinder the message in the book? Explain fully.

3. Does the style help or hinder reader enjoyment? Explain fully.

Essay Topic 2

Wilkerson describes the buying and remodeling of an old mansion for a Teen Challenge Center. He bought the mansion with no idea of how he is going to continue paying for it. Discuss the following:

1. Is it responsible to rely upon prayer and God to take care of your finances? Should people go out and purchase what they feel "led" to do on credit and assume God will come up with the payments when needed?

2. Do faith and finances mix?

3. Can the idea of doing something on faith be misused?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 12, one of Wilkerson's earliest success stories was forcibly "drafted" back into the gang and subsequently involved in a violent confrontation that resulted in his being imprisoned. Wilkerson writes that he learned he has to follow up with the gang members he converts. Discuss one of the following:

1. How does Wilkerson go about following up with gang members? Is his method successful? How long do you think follow-up might be necessary in these kind of circumstances? If you were making a suggestion to Wilkerson about follow-up, what would it be?

2. Often, follow-up is crucial to the success of any change. Discuss a situation that is ongoing in at the end of the first decade of the 21st century which requires more follow-up and how it should occur. (Hint: Nature disaster aid, wars, etc.).

3. Most of us are usually desirous of a quick cure for almost anything. Why is the quick cure not usually a cure? Give examples and show how persistence and follow-up could make the difference.

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