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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 is another factor about drug addiction that Wilkerson addresses in Chapter 19?
(a) The abomination of drug addiction.
(b) The economics of drug addiction.
(c) The pattern of distribution of addicts in a city.
(d) The making of the drugs.

2. What term does the author explain in Chapter 21?
(a) Off the train.
(b) Power of prayer.
(c) Being baptized into the Holy Spirit.
(d) On the wagon.

3. What is most likely what Dave would say about faith?
(a) It is powerful.
(b) It comes and goes.
(c) It's not important.
(d) Some people don't need it.

4. What were Dave's living quarters like when he returns to New York.
(a) He stayed in the Ortez's church.
(b) Small and uncomfortable.
(c) He lived in a tenement in the ghetto.
(d) A motel room.

5. What does Nicky leading a prayer service inspire a young man to do?
(a) Go bring his girlfriend to the Center.
(b) Give up drugs for the day.
(c) Go bring his parents to the Center.
(d) Ask for the experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dave feel about what Nicky tells him?

2. What was the requirement for the young people who would work at the Center?

3. What is the reason some who slip back into addiction leave the addiction again?

4. What is Dave considering in the beginning of Chapter 11?

5. After this trip what did Dave and Gwen decide?

Short Essay Questions

1. What methods does Dave say the board used to purchase the building? What do you think he means by "hard-nosed" business sense?

2. What do the recovering addicts at the center tell Dave when he asks why they are successful? What does Dave think about their answer?

3. What does the author say about how Nicky's speech is received and what happens after it?

4. Describe how Dave finally made a decision about moving to New York?

5. What does Gwen point out that reminds the author of his vision in Chapter 12?

6. What does the author describe at the beginning of Chapter 14? When you read his description did it sound like a good idea to you?

7. What did Linda Meisner do at the Center? How did she handle the dangers of her job?

8. What was the process Dave had to go through in order to have the Teen Challenge Center ready for Business?

9. In Chapter 11 what is the author contemplating? What does he do to help him in his decision?

10. What does the author have to say about the economics of drugs?

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