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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Josh throw over the falls?
(a) A dummy dressed like him.
(b) His pants and wallet and shoes.
(c) His shoes and sweatshirt.
(d) His shirt and bookbag.

2. Where does Josh get money from?
(a) He sells some stocks his mother left him.
(b) He steals it from Peter.
(c) He goes without money, so he doesn't arouse suspicion.
(d) He takes all his savings.

3. How does Josh buy himself an escape?
(a) He buys a disguise.
(b) He gets a bus ticket.
(c) He gets a hotel room.
(d) He bribes a mailman.

4. What does Josh say Larry probably thinks about betagold?
(a) He hopes to be discovered.
(b) He hopes she'll go away.
(c) He hopes she'll identify the wrong person.
(d) He hopes she'll always be looking for him.

5. Who is Tracy Hawthorne?
(a) A woman from Bloomingdale's.
(b) Josh's teacher.
(c) A friend of Beth's.
(d) betagold.

6. What does betagold do at Larryfest?
(a) Interviews attendees.
(b) Petitions for Larry to reveal himself.
(c) Takes Josh's hand.
(d) Rants against Larry.

7. What is Larryfest?
(a) A film festival.
(b) An anti-consumerist festival.
(c) A music festival.
(d) An economic summit.

8. What does Josh watch on TV from the motel?
(a) Bono's lamentation of Josh's suicide.
(b) An exposé on the commercialization of Larry's website.
(c) The news sensationalizing his death for ratings.
(d) Coverage of his death.

9. What is the gist of the epigraph at the beginning of Part 6?
(a) Rebirth is costly.
(b) People knew that Christ was still alive.
(c) There is no life without rebirth.
(d) Death is an illusion.

10. Why does Beth ultimately break with Josh?
(a) Because she doesn't believe in his message any more.
(b) Because her parents have threatened her if she sees him.
(c) Because she considers him a sell-out.
(d) Because friendship should have been based on honesty.

11. When does Josh plan to fake his death?
(a) When Beth is with him.
(b) When Peter will be the one to find that he missing.
(c) When school is out.
(d) When Peter is out of town.

12. What encouragement does Josh get when he visits Bloomingdale's?
(a) He overhears a man telling his daughter to admire Larry.
(b) He overhears a beautician tell a woman she is beautiful.
(c) He overhears a man tell his wife to continue her work.
(d) He overhears a woman telling her son that she's proud of him.

13. How does betagold scare Josh?
(a) By saying that she already knows who Larry is.
(b) By announcing that she will fly to Boston.
(c) By claiming that she has a method for identifying Larry.
(d) By hacking Larry's website.

14. What is the gist of the epigraph for Part 5?
(a) The pleasure of sinfulness.
(b) The danger of damnation.
(c) Rising from the dead.
(d) Repenting for sins.

15. How does the older woman make Josh's day?
(a) By telling him that he's as good a person as Larry claims to be.
(b) By telling Beth that she should consider herself lucky.
(c) By telling him that he's very handsome.
(d) By telling him that his mother would be proud of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many possessions does Josh take with him?

2. What is pseudocide?

3. What does Josh wonder when he sees Beth outside her house?

4. What does Josh say is the only thing making his exile bearable?

5. What is Josh surprised by in the Boston Globe?

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