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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. Who first joins Dave in prayer during his street preaching?
(a) Two parents of gang members.
(b) Maria.
(c) Two gang members.
(d) A police officer.

2. What does Dave suggest is the result of violence in gangs?
(a) It spreads throughout the community.
(b) It keeps the streets from being safe.
(c) Too many kids end up dead.
(d) It makes it more difficult to preach to the gangs.

3. Who did Dave tell of his idea to help the teenagers?
(a) The police.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) His church.
(d) His boss.

4. How do the gangs feel about Dave's trouble with the police?
(a) It means nothing because it wasn't a real crime.
(b) It gives him respect.
(c) He can't be a real preacher.
(d) It makes him look silly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Dave's grandfather compare Dave's mission in New York?

2. Why did Dave feel embarrassment about going to New York?

3. What kind of prayer did Dave's grandfather tell him to practice?

4. What does Dave say are three main activities of gangs?

5. What does Dave's grandfather tell him about New York?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. How did many of the girls of the gang members feel about Dave converting them and what did they do about it? Why do you think the girls reacted this way?

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. What idea is formed after Dave talks to Ortez's congregation? Do you think it was a good idea?

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