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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 say is the only thing making his exile bearable?

2. What is pseudocide?

3. What consequence does Peter face from Josh being Larry?

4. What does Josh say he can focus on, now that his manuscript is finished?

5. What does Josh watch on TV from the motel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Josh's funeral.

3. What is the epigraph for Part 3, and what is its significance?

4. Describe Josh's pseudocide.

5. How does Josh rise from his depression about being commoditized?

6. How does Josh disguise himself?

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

8. What happens between Josh and Beth at Larryfest?

9. Why doesn't Josh leave for Santa Fe?

10. What happens during Josh's vision quest?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Visit the 'Larry' blog, and describe its relationship with the book. Is it a work in its own right, or is it just an extra-part of the book? Does it seem to attract the same kind of audience that was drawn to Larry within the book?

Essay Topic 2

What is the importance of family in 'The Gospel According to Larry'? Could Josh have written 'The Gospel According to Larry' if he had a stable, happy family? Was the website and then the book a kind of compensation for his lack of family?

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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