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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 lesson has Josh learned from living with his stepfather?

2. What are Josh's feelings about Katherine?

3. What does Josh complain about in sermon 93?

4. What shocks Josh at the cemetery?

5. What are Josh's feelings for Beth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How are Tashjian and the boy in contact?

6. What is the relationship between Josh and Beth?

7. How does Larry's website get noticed?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

Do you think it was necessary for Josh to stage his own death? Could he have lived with the media attention, and used it for good? What other options did he have beside pseudocide, and why was pseudocide his best option?

Essay Topic 3

How realistic is this book? What parts are not believable? What leaps of faith does the author require of the reader?

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