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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 Beth give Josh for his trip to the cemetery?

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

3. What are Josh's feelings about Katherine?

4. What did the author of 'The Gospel According to Larry' put at the beginning of each chapter?

5. What does Josh have to do when he buys something?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Larry's website get noticed?

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

4. What is Peter's relationship with the Larry website

5. What is Beth asking Josh to do when the novel opens?

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

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

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

9. Describe Josh's visit to the cemetery with Peter.

10. What signs of death appear around Josh, and how does he interpret them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Sketch an outline for a sequel to 'The Gospel According to Larry'. Would Josh keep writing? What would he do after the book was published? Would anything draw him out of hiding?

Essay Topic 3

Does Josh claim to be a messiah, or just a guide? Does he want people to follow his way, or just to follow their own way? How does he account for people whose decisions would be different from his?

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