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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Peter account for the thing that shocks Josh at the cemetery?
(a) People do randomly destructive things.
(b) He thought Josh would want to be buried with his mother.
(c) He had had a vision of Josh's death.
(d) He thought he could

2. What strategy does Josh propose for helping Third World countries?
(a) The World Bank could forgive some debt.
(b) More fundraisers.
(c) Micro-financing.
(d) Financing humanitarian missions.

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

4. Why does Josh limit the number of his possessions?
(a) He read about Native Americans not wanting to leave a big footprint.
(b) He read Thoreau's 'Walden' and wanted to simplify his life.
(c) He was religious and didn't want to be distracted from things of the spirit.
(d) He read about environmental destruction and didn't want to have anything to do with industry.

5. 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 enjoyed reading the rant on the website.
(c) That Josh should stop writing to her.
(d) That she had discovered a new writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the import of the epigraph for Part 2?

2. What does Beth give herself for her birthday?

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

4. Where is Josh's mother?

5. What makes Josh feel close to Peter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What motivated Josh to adopt an anti-consumerist message?

2. What does Tashjian foreshadow in the beginning of Part 2?

3. Where does Josh go for a 'whole new level of solitude' when he wants to think?

4. What does Beth give Josh on the anniversary of his mother's death?

5. What is Josh's relationship with his possessions?

6. What is the importance of the epigraph for Part 1?

7. What is Josh's relationship with Katherine?

8. Why hasn't Josh told Beth that he is Larry?

9. What is Josh's relationship with his stepfather like?

10. What is Tashjian's response to Josh's story?

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