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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What answer does Josh get when he asks his mother whether she will help him change the world?
(a) A boy asks 'do we have to?'
(b) A mother says 'I won't allow you to do that'.
(c) A woman says 'you must be crazy'.
(d) A man says 'yes of course I will'.

2. How does Janet Tashjian claim to have received the manuscript for 'The Gospel According to Larry'?
(a) A young man thought it was hers and 'returned it' to her.
(b) She claimed to have discovered it in a box of her grandfather's papers.
(c) She received the submission at the press where she worked.
(d) A young man handed it to her at the supermarket.

3. Where did Beth read the thing she is discussing with Josh?
(a) On a printed flyer.
(b) From a magazine.
(c) On thegospelaccordingtolarry.com.
(d) The school newspaper.

4. What shocks Josh at the cemetery?
(a) The epitaph on her tombstone.
(b) The death's head.
(c) His own name below his mother's.
(d) Graffiti.

5. What does Josh Swensen supplement the manuscript with?
(a) Personal diary pages.
(b) Music CDs.
(c) A DVD.
(d) Photographs.

6. What does betagold challenge Larry to do?
(a) Reveal his identity.
(b) Accept her invitation to dinner.
(c) Accept her invitation to be interviewed.
(d) Post a list of his possessions.

7. What does Tashjian realize on her way home with the manuscript?
(a) What Thoreau meant about the marketplace.
(b) Why the person who gave it to her looked familiar.
(c) That she would have to publish this manuscript.
(d) What she needed to ask the person who gave it to her.

8. What does Josh complain about in a lecture after seeing Beth?
(a) Social climbing friends.
(b) Backstabbing friends.
(c) Predatory guys.
(d) Two-faced girls.

9. What does Josh realize when he sees the size of the fan club?
(a) That no one knows who he is.
(b) That he can't keep pretending to be Larry.
(c) That he is already changing the world.
(d) That people are angry about what he's said as Larry.

10. How many years has it been since Josh's mother died?
(a) Four.
(b) Seven.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

11. By how much do the number of hits on Josh's website increase each day?
(a) 10%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 90%.
(d) 25%.

12. Why does Josh say he cannot sell a product?
(a) He is non-materialistic.
(b) He doesn't want to buy things, so he tries to make things for himself.
(c) He is trying to give things away, not sell them.
(d) He refuses to handle money.

13. How does Josh interpret the card Beth pulls for him?
(a) He will be recognized for the sage he is.
(b) He will die soon.
(c) He will go to the cemetery.
(d) He will visit with his mother.

14. What does Josh say he wants to be?
(a) A marketing executive.
(b) A hermit.
(c) A salesman.
(d) A prophet.

15. What is the import of the epigraph for Part 2?
(a) That the meek shall inherit the earth.
(b) That who gives his life for the sake of Christ will find a new life.
(c) That religion is a distraction from religious living.
(d) That you should simplify your life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tashjian do when she has this realization?

2. What are Tashjian's feelings about the manuscript?

3. How does Josh's website put him in an awkward position?

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

5. How many of the seniors in Josh's school are in the Larry fan club?

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