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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Josh think about leaving a suicide note?
(a) He announces his suicide on Larry's website.
(b) He decides against it.
(c) He leaves a note for Beth only.
(d) He leaves a note for Peter alone.

3. What does Josh plan to do in six months?
(a) Return and say that he had lost his memory.
(b) Flee to Mexico.
(c) Return and say that he was kidnapped.
(d) Flee to Canada.

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

5. What does Beth say at Josh's funeral?
(a) That Josh would be mocking people for listening to him instead of listening to their own selves.
(b) That Josh would be pleased to see so many people here.
(c) That Josh had not died.
(d) That Josh would hate the circus his funeral had become.

6. Where does Josh go after finishing his manuscript?
(a) Beth's house.
(b) Boston.
(c) Walden Pond.
(d) Home.

7. What prevents Josh from telling Beth that he is Larry?
(a) His stepfather.
(b) Bono.
(c) Three girls from Chicago.
(d) betagold.

8. What is the gist of the epigraph for Part 5?
(a) The pleasure of sinfulness.
(b) The danger of damnation.
(c) Repenting for sins.
(d) Rising from the dead.

9. Where is Larryfest held?
(a) Vermont.
(b) Maine.
(c) The Adirondacks.
(d) Boston.

10. Where is the epigraph to Part 3 from?
(a) 1984.
(b) The book of John.
(c) U2.
(d) The book of Mark.

11. Why is Josh nervous about spending time with Beth?
(a) Because he is having difficulty resisting the impulse to kiss her.
(b) Because he is afraid she will tell him about her affection for Todd or some other boy.
(c) Because Larry had written about spending time alone in the woods at the same time that Josh had spent time alone in the woods.
(d) Because he is starting to lose interest in her, just at the time when she is starting to like him.

12. What does Josh say he can focus on, now that his manuscript is finished?
(a) Returning home.
(b) Starting a family.
(c) Contributing.
(d) Making money.

13. Where does Josh say he found his guidance, ultimately?
(a) In words themselves.
(b) In friends.
(c) In nature.
(d) In himself.

14. What climax takes place when Josh Swensen is identified as Larry?
(a) Bono becomes the father Josh always wanted.
(b) Josh's step-father recognizes his anti-consumerism as resentment, and they reconcile.
(c) Josh's conversations with his mother are transformed into conversations with betagold.
(d) The foreshadowing of death is fulfilled, and Josh Swensen 'dies'.

15. How does betagold scare Josh?
(a) By saying that she already knows who Larry is.
(b) By hacking Larry's website.
(c) By claiming that she has a method for identifying Larry.
(d) By announcing that she will fly to Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Josh tell Beth about the publicity?

2. What does Josh offer to an older woman at Larryfest?

3. Where is the epigraph for Part 4 from?

4. What does Beth do in response to the news that Josh is Larry?

5. How many people claimed to be Josh's father?

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