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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 pretend with Beth?

2. How many hits does Josh get on Larry's site after Bono draws attention to it?

3. What happens when 'Larry's' work becomes popular?

4. Who is Peter?

5. Where does Josh go to visit with his mother's spirit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Janet Tashjian?

2. What does Beth give Josh on the anniversary of his mother's death?

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

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

5. What does Josh Swensen give Tashjian?

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

7. Where does 'The Gospel According to Larry' begin?

8. How does Larry's website get noticed?

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

10. What is the importance of the epigraph to Part 2?

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

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

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

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