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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Josh pretend with Beth?

2. What claim do people make about Josh Swensen?

3. What is Josh fighting against?

4. What idea does Josh draw from 1984?

5. Why does Josh say he cannot sell a product?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Josh's catch-22?

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

3. What does Josh Swensen give Tashjian?

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

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

6. How are Tashjian and the boy in contact?

7. What book is introduced even before we see the manuscript of 'The Gospel According to Larry'?

8. What is Josh's relationship with Katherine?

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

10. What items does Josh post photos of on Larry's website?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Josh consistent with his message, or does he contradict himself? How does he address the possibility of self-contradiction, or selling out?

Essay Topic 2

What is the role of the Bible in 'The Gospel According to Larry'? How is Josh's book a Bible, and how is it rebelling against being a Bible?

Essay Topic 3

What literary devices does Tashjian use in 'The Gospel According to Larry', and how do they contribute to the meaning of the book? How does she use personification? Characterization? Foreshadowing? What others does she use?

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