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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Josh's website put him in an awkward position?
(a) He forgets that no one knows he is Larry.
(b) He has to start his own fan club.
(c) He has to pretend that he does not read Larry's writing.
(d) He has to pretend that he thinks Larry is stupid.

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

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

6. What does Josh say he wants to be?
(a) A salesman.
(b) A prophet.
(c) A hermit.
(d) A marketing executive.

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

8. 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 she can send him a message.
(b) That she can call.
(c) That it is impossible.
(d) That she can email.

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

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

11. What does Billy North determine about Larry?
(a) That he is a girl.
(b) That he is high school.
(c) That he is Josh.
(d) That he lives in New England.

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

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

14. How many hits does Josh get on Larry's site after Bono draws attention to it?
(a) More than five hundred thousand.
(b) Over a million.
(c) Over a hundred thousand.
(d) Four million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tashjian's editor think of the manuscript?

2. How many of the seniors in Josh's school are in the Larry fan club?

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

4. What is NOT a reason for which Josh created the Larry website?

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

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