View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 39-73.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tashjian characterize Josh's attitude while he is listening to Beth?
(a) Lovey-dovey.
(b) Rapt.
(c) Distracted.
(d) Disillusioned.

2. How does Janet Tashjian claim to have received the manuscript for 'The Gospel According to Larry'?
(a) A young man handed it to her at the supermarket.
(b) She received the submission at the press where she worked.
(c) A young man thought it was hers and 'returned it' to her.
(d) She claimed to have discovered it in a box of her grandfather's papers.

3. What is Josh's response to what Tashjian tells him?
(a) That he only has one life to live.
(b) That he can't protect people from themselves.
(c) That he can't be responsible for other people's feelings.
(d) That he needs to be honest.

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

5. What happens when 'Larry's' work becomes popular?
(a) Larry signs a book contract.
(b) He splits with Josh.
(c) Christy refuses to publish his work.
(d) Josh's anonymity is compromised.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a teacher tell Tashjian about Josh Swensen?

2. Who is Peter?

3. Who attends the first Larry fan club meeting?

4. Where does Josh go to visit with his mother's spirit?

5. What did the author of 'The Gospel According to Larry' put at the beginning of each chapter?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 296 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample