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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 is the name of the community where Edith Moore, Colman's grandmother, lives?

2. What kind of lessons does Joss end up giving Colman's first girlfriend that he brings home?

3. What is one thing Maggie notices right away about Joss Moody?

4. What does Colman remember his mother saying he went around with on page 165?

5. What newspaper does Sophie Stones work for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Colman help Millie immediately after Joss's death?

2. What is the first thing Millie Moody asked the cleaner Maggie when she began working for the Moodys?

3. What does Colman think is the first thing he would ask his father Joss Moody if he had the opportunity to ask him one thing again?

4. How does Colman Moody feel about the prospect of meeting Joss Moody's mother for the first time?

5. What does Sophie Stones Tell Colman about Joss that shocks him on page 143?

6. How does Millie Moody feel when she begins getting multiple letters from Sophie Stones?

7. What does Sophie admit that she spends too much of her money on?

8. Why does Colman break up with his girlfriend Melanie?

9. How does Big Red McCall, Joss Moody's drummer, feel about Joss?

10. How does Maggie feel about the Moodys as a family, and how they treated her as their cleaner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the end of the novel, Colman and Millie are about to meet face-to-face for the first time since Colman found out that his father Joss was born as a woman. Given all that has transpired in the novel to this point, write an essay predicting what you think may transpire during this meeting. Will Colman and his mother be able to find mutual forgiveness and forge a path towards a peaceful relationship?

Essay Topic 2

What is Colman Moody able to learn about his father - and himself - from Joss Moody's letter that Joss left for Colman to be opened after Joss's death? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Maggie, the Moodys' house cleaner, decide to give an interview to the journalist Sophie Stones, and what important information does Maggie give to Sophie about Joss Moody? How does Maggie feel about having done the interview afterwards? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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