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

2. What does the banner on the plan claim about Josh?
(a) That he drinks a certain soda.
(b) That he wears certain jeans.
(c) That he eats a certain candy.
(d) That he drives a certain car.

3. What does Josh throw over the falls?
(a) His pants and wallet and shoes.
(b) His shoes and sweatshirt.
(c) His shirt and bookbag.
(d) A dummy dressed like him.

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

5. What does Josh say when Beth says that he should have told her?
(a) He was afraid.
(b) He couldn't.
(c) He almost did, a number of times.
(d) He didn't trust himself to let her in on the secret.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the friendship between Josh and Beth like at Larryfest?

2. What does Josh say Larry probably thinks about betagold?

3. Where is the epigraph to Part 3 from?

4. How does Josh identify himself when the police ask him for identification?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the epigraph to Part 4, and what is its importance?

2. What is the epigraph to Part 5, and what is its importance?

3. What happens between Josh and Beth at Larryfest?

4. What are the consequences for Peter Josh being outed as Larry?

5. What are the consequences for Beth, that Josh is Larry?

6. What are Josh's thoughts about leaving a suicide note?

7. Describe Josh's funeral.

8. What happens during Josh's vision quest?

9. What are the disadvantages of being outed as Larry?

10. How many things does Josh take with him on the appointed day?

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