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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the journalist who is working on a book about Joss Moody?
(a) Sophie Stones.
(b) Norah Rahm.
(c) Melinda Good.
(d) Lindy Westing.

2. What is the name of Joss's first band?
(a) The Moody Men.
(b) The Cool Cats.
(c) The Trio.
(d) The Jazz Hands.

3. What does the saying over Albert Holding's door say that death hath?
(a) A light touch.
(b) Its own door.
(c) A sense of humor.
(d) 10,000 several doors.

4. What movie does Millie recall on page 1 that she can relate to her feelings after Joss's death?
(a) Double Indemnity.
(b) Hogan's Heroes.
(c) The Crying Game.
(d) Ray.

5. What is the name of the funeral director who manages Joss's funeral?
(a) John Hardy.
(b) Albert Holding.
(c) James Keynes.
(d) Michael Moore.

6. What does the undertaker tell his one-time girlfriend that terrifies her on page 104?
(a) That ghosts are real.
(b) That he can speak with spirits.
(c) That some dead people change personalities at the moment of death.
(d) That sometimes people are buried alive.

7. What did Mohammad most often observe about a pensioner there to register a parent's death?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Elation.
(c) Anger.
(d) Indifference.

8. What musician does Kay quote before the first chapter of the novel?
(a) Michael Buble.
(b) George Gershwin.
(c) Woodie Guthrie.
(d) Louis Armstrong.

9. What does Joss tell Colman when he asks where Joss's father was from?
(a) He was from the West Indies.
(b) He was from London.
(c) He was from Jamaica.
(d) Colman can pick a story and choose to believe where Joss's father was from.

10. In what city did Joss and Millie first meet?
(a) London.
(b) Glasgow.
(c) Dublin.
(d) Paris.

11. What did Joss show Millie about her own mother?
(a) That her mother had a very angry nature.
(b) That her mother had a wonderful sense of humor.
(c) That her mother loved fashion and makeup, which she never knew.
(d) A side to her mother she never knew existed.

12. What style of music did Joss Moody play?
(a) Rap.
(b) Classical.
(c) Rock and roll.
(d) Jazz.

13. What does Millie think Joss would say to her if he was still alive concerning how to honor him after death?
(a) To make sure she receives the royalty payments coming to him.
(b) To make sure she takes good care of Colman.
(c) Not to mourn him but to celebrate him.
(d) To make sure his secret never got out.

14. What kinds of disputes does the registrar often intervene in and mitigate?
(a) Disputes involving wills and money.
(b) Disputes over whether a woman should change her name to her husband's after a marriage.
(c) Disputes over whether a father of a baby is really the true biological father.
(d) Disputes when new parents disagree on a baby's name.

15. What does the registrar take particular pride in himself for?
(a) His mastery of languages.
(b) His beautiful handwriting.
(c) His grooming.
(d) His fitness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Joss used to do for Millie every night they were married?

2. What natural disaster event happened as Colman was born?

3. Why does Joss tell Millie he wants to ask Millie's mother to dance at their wedding?

4. Who is the woman at the cafe in Torr who is always kind to Millie and whom Millie adores?

5. What had the registrar never seen in his life before he saw Joss Moody's death certificate?

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