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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. What does Josh complain about in sermon 93?
(a) Advertising.
(b) Greed.
(c) Mindlessness in people.
(d) Pollution.

2. Who attends the first Larry fan club meeting?
(a) The smart students.
(b) Students from all cliques.
(c) The popular kids.
(d) The teeny-boppers.

3. How old was the person who gave Tashjian the manuscript?
(a) 27.
(b) 17.
(c) 38.
(d) 78.

4. What does Beth give herself for her birthday?
(a) A tattoo of a dolphin.
(b) A trip to the woods.
(c) A necklace.
(d) An anti-commercial tattoo.

5. What does Josh complain about in a lecture after seeing Beth?
(a) Social climbing friends.
(b) Predatory guys.
(c) Two-faced girls.
(d) Backstabbing friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Josh's medium for conducting this fight?

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

3. What happens when 'Larry's' work becomes popular?

4. Who is Katherine?

5. What does Beth give Josh for his trip to the cemetery?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Josh's personal life intrude on Larry's sermons?

3. What is Josh's answer when Tashjian warns him that publishing the book will renew his troubles?

4. What is Josh's relationship with Katherine?

5. What is the importance of the epigraph to Part 2?

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

7. How does Josh get in touch with his mother?

8. What does Josh take from Peter, his step-father?

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

10. How does Larry's website get noticed?

(see the answer keys)

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