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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. Why does Maria visit Dave at the Ortez' house?
(a) She wants to hear more about God.
(b) She threatens to kill herself if he doesn't leave the gangs alone.
(c) She is pregnant and wants help.
(d) She wants to see Pennsylvania.

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

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

4. What do the gang members think might happen if they converted?
(a) They would be poor.
(b) They would have to get a job.
(c) They would have to get married.
(d) They might cry.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Dave manipulate Nicky into doing the last night of the rally?

3. How do Dave's initial attempts to find the parents end?

4. What could the violence that spreads out from gangs called?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What did Dave decide he needed to do when he arrived in New York? Does this appear to be a wise decision?

4. What does Dave think would give the gang members the best chance at change? What does he think the gang members need to do? Do you agree with his thoughts?

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

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

7. What did Dave do shortly after he arrived back in New York? Do you think the gang members would have talked to him if he hadn't been thrown out of the courthouse?

8. What kind of prayer did Dave's grandfather believe in and what was one example of it that Dave saw as a young boy? Do you think that event was a major influence on Dave's own life?

9. 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?

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

(see the answer keys)

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