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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 time does Edith Moore wake at every morning?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

2. What does Colman find particularly disgusting about his father's secret in a physical sense?
(a) That his father had female hormones.
(b) That his father wore skirts.
(c) That his father wore women's underwear.
(d) That his father would have gotten periods.

3. What did Josephine bring for Edith to eat the last time she visited Edith?
(a) Pizza.
(b) A carry-out chicken curry.
(c) Baked ham.
(d) Pie.

4. What shocks and dismays Millie the most about the letters she receives from Sophie Stones?
(a) She can tell her son Colman is cooperating with Sophie from Sophie's letters.
(b) Sophie is offering Millie over one million pounds for her story.
(c) The handwriting is terrible.
(d) She has to pay the postage to receive the letters herself.

5. What is one of the peculiarities of Joss's death that the registrar notices?
(a) He had died in the hospital.
(b) He had died at home.
(c) He had claimed no pension.
(d) He had made a will asking that his cause of death be recorded as cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of list does Millie make on page 157?

2. What does Colman do after he sees Joss's body in the funeral parlor?

3. How does Sophie Stones seem to feel about her sister?

4. What time does Sophie Stones wake up at every morning?

5. What does Colman briefly panic about on his way to Glasgow?

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