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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (171 - 231).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maggie tell Sophie about her reaction when she first heard Joss was transgender?
(a) She did not quite believe it and thought the undertaker might have made a mistake.
(b) She did not care one way or another about the news.
(c) She always knew Joss was transgender.
(d) The very first person she thought of was Colman.

2. How does Colman feel towards his birth parents, whom he has never met?
(a) He wants to meet just his birth father.
(b) He has already met his birth parents and he dislikes them.
(c) He does not care at all about them.
(d) He wants to meet just his birth mother.

3. What does Big Red McCall take great offense to people saying about Joss Moody?
(a) That he had a baby face.
(b) That Joss was not a good musician.
(c) That his skin was as smooth as a woman's.
(d) That he should have known Joss was a transgender person.

4. How does Sophie Stones refer to Joss Moody in her own mind?
(a) As a poor soul.
(b) As a transvestite.
(c) As a "real" man.
(d) As a medical mystery.

5. What conclusion does Colman reach about why his father Joss left Scotland for London?
(a) Joss loved London.
(b) Joss moved to London to be closer to Millie.
(c) Joss was ambitious and needed to be in London for his career.
(d) Joss's mother still lives in Scotland and he did not want to live near her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sophie Stones' sister?

2. What does the registrar take particular pride in himself for?

3. What does Colman say his father Joss Moody could not cope with at one stage of Colman's life on page 163?

4. What shocks and dismays Millie the most about the letters she receives from Sophie Stones?

5. What does Colman use his keys to his parents' house in London to get in and look for?

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