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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beth do in response to the news that Josh is Larry?
(a) Defend him.
(b) Turn against him.
(c) Ignore him.
(d) Stick close to him.

2. How does Josh say Larry will be recognizable at Larryfest?
(a) He will be the guy with a peaceful heart.
(b) He will be they guy with a t-shirt and a smile.
(c) He will be the guy with flowers.
(d) He will be the guy giving his things away.

3. What does Josh tell Beth about the publicity?
(a) He is miserable because of it.
(b) He feels strangely fulfilled by it.
(c) He wishes he had more wisdom to control it.
(d) He is afraid he does not have enough friends to withstand it.

4. What does Josh wonder while he is making his vision quest?
(a) What he will do next.
(b) Why he has a hard time just being himself.
(c) Why his mother had to die.
(d) Why he made Larry up in the first place.

5. How does the older woman make Josh's day?
(a) By telling him that he's as good a person as Larry claims to be.
(b) By telling Beth that she should consider herself lucky.
(c) By telling him that he's very handsome.
(d) By telling him that his mother would be proud of him.

6. What are Josh's feelings about the project he wakes up with in Part 5?
(a) He is sure he will go through with it.
(b) He is not sure it is the right thing to do.
(c) He is positive it is the right thing to do.
(d) He doubts he will go through with it.

7. What is Item 57 that Josh posts on the website?
(a) A camera.
(b) A book.
(c) A CD.
(d) A pair of boots.

8. What does media attention do to Josh?
(a) Allows him to change more people's lives.
(b) Turns him into a product.
(c) Gives him more cultural power.
(d) Preserves his privacy.

9. What is Josh afraid of if he cannot be convincing?
(a) He will be found and imprisoned.
(b) He will lose all the integrity he had won.
(c) The media will keep looking for him.
(d) He will be laughed at for fleeing.

10. Who is Tracy Hawthorne?
(a) Josh's teacher.
(b) betagold.
(c) A woman from Bloomingdale's.
(d) A friend of Beth's.

11. What does Josh make a list of?
(a) All the things he will need.
(b) All the letters he'll have to write.
(c) All the people he'll have to say goodbye to.
(d) All the sermons he'll have to make.

12. Why does Beth ultimately break with Josh?
(a) Because her parents have threatened her if she sees him.
(b) Because friendship should have been based on honesty.
(c) Because she doesn't believe in his message any more.
(d) Because she considers him a sell-out.

13. What encouragement does Josh get when he visits Bloomingdale's?
(a) He overhears a man telling his daughter to admire Larry.
(b) He overhears a woman telling her son that she's proud of him.
(c) He overhears a beautician tell a woman she is beautiful.
(d) He overhears a man tell his wife to continue her work.

14. Where is Josh going to start with his work after he publishes his manuscript?
(a) With himself.
(b) With Beth.
(c) With his town.
(d) With nature.

15. What does betagold do at Larryfest?
(a) Interviews attendees.
(b) Rants against Larry.
(c) Petitions for Larry to reveal himself.
(d) Takes Josh's hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Josh think about Beth when he considers his plans and their effect on her?

2. Where does the epigraph at the beginning of Part 5 come from?

3. Why does Josh wear a life jacket while sleeping?

4. What does Josh say is the only thing making his exile bearable?

5. What consequence does Peter face from Josh being Larry?

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