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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Josh realize when he sees the size of the fan club?
(a) That no one knows who he is.
(b) That he can't keep pretending to be Larry.
(c) That he is already changing the world.
(d) That people are angry about what he's said as Larry.

2. What shocks Josh at the cemetery?
(a) His own name below his mother's.
(b) Graffiti.
(c) The death's head.
(d) The epitaph on her tombstone.

3. What idea does Josh's website begin with?
(a) Anti-consumerism.
(b) Religious devotion.
(c) Environmentalism.
(d) Martyrdom.

4. What does Josh complain about in a lecture after seeing Beth?
(a) Predatory guys.
(b) Backstabbing friends.
(c) Social climbing friends.
(d) Two-faced girls.

5. What is Josh fighting against?
(a) Consumerism.
(b) Militarism.
(c) Relativism.
(d) Postmodernism.

6. Why did Tashjian agree to take the manuscript?
(a) Because she knew the person who gave it to her.
(b) Because the person who gave it to her ran away.
(c) Because she was curious what was inside it.
(d) Because the person who gave it to her was reading to her.

7. Where does the quote at the opening of Part 1 come from?
(a) The book of John.
(b) 'Walden'.
(c) The Book of Mark.
(d) The Book of Luke.

8. How is the 'The Gospel According to Larry' set up?
(a) Like a series of newspaper articles.
(b) As a disjointed pile of notes.
(c) Like a term paper.
(d) As a series of letters.

9. What claim do people make about Josh Swensen?
(a) That he was institutionalized.
(b) That he is violent.
(c) That he hates society.
(d) That he is bipolar.

10. Who does Josh say his mother belonged to?
(a) Herself.
(b) God.
(c) Peter.
(d) Him.

11. Who tells the narrative of 'The Gospel According to Larry'?
(a) Larry.
(b) Christy.
(c) Janet Tashjian.
(d) Josh.

12. What curiosity does Beth share with betagold?
(a) Whether Todd likes her.
(b) Whether Josh is Larry.
(c) Whether Larry really only has 75 possessions.
(d) Whether Larry is fabricating his information.

13. What does Tashjian realize on her way home with the manuscript?
(a) What she needed to ask the person who gave it to her.
(b) What Thoreau meant about the marketplace.
(c) That she would have to publish this manuscript.
(d) Why the person who gave it to her looked familiar.

14. What strategy does Josh propose for helping Third World countries?
(a) The World Bank could forgive some debt.
(b) Micro-financing.
(c) Financing humanitarian missions.
(d) More fundraisers.

15. What is Beth telling Josh at the beginning of 'The Gospel According to Larry'?
(a) That Josh should stop writing to her.
(b) That she had discovered a new writer.
(c) That she didn't understand something she had read.
(d) That she enjoyed reading the rant on the website.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Josh's response to what Tashjian tells him?

2. What does Beth give herself for her birthday?

3. How many years has it been since Josh's mother died?

4. What other writing does Beth say she enjoyed?

5. Who is Beth?

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