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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What lesson has Josh learned from living with his stepfather?
(a) Not to take money for anything.
(b) To make himself indispensable.
(c) That products need niches.
(d) Not to give anything away.

3. What does Tashjian say is not usually Josh's thing?
(a) Hiding.
(b) Speaking up.
(c) Joining.
(d) Reading.

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

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

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

7. What does Josh pretend with Beth?
(a) That he likes her.
(b) That he thinks she is really Larry.
(c) That he is interested in what she is saying.
(d) That they are going out.

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

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

10. What does Josh agree to help Beth with?
(a) Sneaking her out of her parents' house.
(b) Writing a paper.
(c) Studying for a test.
(d) Forming a study group.

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

12. Where does Josh go to write sermon 113?
(a) The basement.
(b) The forest.
(c) The lakeshore.
(d) Bloomingdales.

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

14. Where does the epigraph for part 2 come from?
(a) Genesis.
(b) The Book of Matthew.
(c) Walden.
(d) Ecclesiastes.

15. Where is Josh's mother?
(a) She is in prison.
(b) She moved away.
(c) She lives in California.
(d) She is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Josh interpret signs of death around him?

2. Where had the person who gave Tashjian the manuscript just returned from?

3. What was the website like when Josh started it?

4. Where did Beth read the thing she is discussing with Josh?

5. Why does Josh say he cannot sell a product?

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