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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4, 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dave decide is the reason teenagers join gangs?
(a) They like the drugs.
(b) They like the violence.
(c) To rebell against their parents.
(d) Out of a sense of deep loneliness and feeling unloved.

2. As what does Dave's grandfather symbolically see Dave's experience in New York?
(a) A phoenix rising from the ashes.
(b) A forked tongue tells lies.
(c) Evil turned into something beautiful.
(d) A snake always stays on its belly.

3. To whom does Dave speak when he leaves the courthouse?
(a) The press.
(b) No one.
(c) The teenagers' parents.
(d) His wife.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did some people in his hometown react when Dave returned home?

3. What did the first parent of the teenage boys tell Dave?

4. Who did Dave tell of his idea to help the teenagers?

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

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