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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 are Tashjian's feelings about the manuscript?

2. What does Josh Swensen supplement the manuscript with?

3. What is the subject of the epigraph to Part 1?

4. How is the 'The Gospel According to Larry' set up?

5. What idea does Josh's website begin with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are Tashjian and the boy in contact?

3. What is Josh's relationship with Katherine?

4. How does Josh's personal life intrude on Larry's sermons?

5. Where does Josh go for a 'whole new level of solitude' when he wants to think?

6. What items does Josh post photos of on Larry's website?

7. What is Tashjian's response to Josh's story?

8. What does Tashjian find out about Josh when she researches him?

9. What is Josh's relationship with his possessions?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How realistic is this book? What parts are not believable? What leaps of faith does the author require of the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Read the sequel to 'The Gospel According to Larry', and Compare and contrast the two books. How are they similar? How are they different?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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