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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peter complain about to Josh?
(a) The state of our culture.
(b) New things on the Internet.
(c) Josh's lack of respect for him.
(d) The coward who is bashing the culture.

2. What does a teacher tell Tashjian about Josh Swensen?
(a) He is the Messiah.
(b) He is schizophrenic.
(c) He has a Messiah complex.
(d) He is a genius.

3. What answer does Josh get when he asks his mother whether she will help him change the world?
(a) A boy asks 'do we have to?'
(b) A woman says 'you must be crazy'.
(c) A mother says 'I won't allow you to do that'.
(d) A man says 'yes of course I will'.

4. Who is Larry?
(a) A pseudonym for Josh.
(b) The author.
(c) Josh's antagonist.
(d) The main character.

5. What is the subject of the epigraph to Part 1?
(a) The truth of a messenger.
(b) The need to examine your own life.
(c) The benefit of voluntary poverty.
(d) The need to take one's own life as a measure of value.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Josh agree to help Beth with?

2. What does the person who gives Janet Tashjian the manuscript of 'The Gospel According to Larry' say about how she can reach him?

3. What does Josh complain about in sermon 93?

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

5. How does Katherine describe Josh?

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