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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who attends the first Larry fan club meeting?
(a) The popular kids.
(b) The teeny-boppers.
(c) The smart students.
(d) Students from all cliques.

2. What does the person who gives Janet Tashjian the manuscript of 'The Gospel According to Larry' say about how she can reach him?
(a) That it is impossible.
(b) That she can send him a message.
(c) That she can email.
(d) That she can call.

3. What does Josh have to do when he buys something?
(a) Get rid of something else.
(b) Make space in his room for it.
(c) Post it on his website.
(d) Pretend it was a gift.

4. 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.

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

6. Who is Peter?
(a) The boy Beth likes.
(b) Josh's stepfather.
(c) Josh's father.
(d) Beth's boyfriend.

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

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

9. Why doesn't Josh want to give Larry up?
(a) He has invested a lot of money in making the website possible.
(b) He wants to be discovered.
(c) His work is not finished.
(d) He thrives on Larry's popularity.

10. What tarot card does Beth pull for Josh?
(a) The death card.
(b) The queen of cups.
(c) The hanged man.
(d) The wise man.

11. Who is Todd?
(a) A jock whom Beth likes.
(b) Josh's nemesis.
(c) Beth's boyfriend.
(d) Josh's friend.

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

13. Why does Josh say he cannot sell a product?
(a) He is non-materialistic.
(b) He doesn't want to buy things, so he tries to make things for himself.
(c) He refuses to handle money.
(d) He is trying to give things away, not sell them.

14. What is Josh's stepfather's business?
(a) Sales.
(b) Advertising.
(c) Retail management.
(d) Oil.

15. How does Josh interpret the card Beth pulls for him?
(a) He will visit with his mother.
(b) He will be recognized for the sage he is.
(c) He will die soon.
(d) He will go to the cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the person who gave Tashjian the manuscript reading?

2. When did Josh start to limit his possessions?

3. How does Tashjian characterize Josh's attitude while he is listening to Beth?

4. Who is Beth?

5. Who does Josh say his mother belonged to?

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