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

2. Who does Josh say his mother belonged to?

3. What does Peter complain about to Josh?

4. What does a teacher tell Tashjian about Josh Swensen?

5. How does Katherine describe Josh?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the response to the Larry fan club?

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

3. What does Josh Swensen give Tashjian?

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

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

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

7. What motivated Josh to adopt an anti-consumerist message?

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

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

10. Why hasn't Josh told Beth that he is Larry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What literary devices does Tashjian use in 'The Gospel According to Larry', and how do they contribute to the meaning of the book? How does she use personification? Characterization? Foreshadowing? What others does she use?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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