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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Joss's first big hit?
(a) The Big Bend.
(b) Homeward.
(c) The Love of My Life.
(d) Fantasy Africa.

2. What does Millie compare Joss's trumpet to on page 34?
(a) A magician's hat.
(b) A magic wand.
(c) A soul.
(d) A golden chalice.

3. What does Joss tell Millie that will solve her anguish over the one thing he can not give her early in their marriage?
(a) They can move back to London.
(b) They can find ways to make more money.
(c) They can adopt a child.
(d) They can let Millie's mother live with them.

4. Where is the house that Millie flees to to escape the media spotlight in Part I of the book?
(a) Glasgow.
(b) Dublin.
(c) London.
(d) Torr.

5. What did Millie's mother suffer from when Millie was a teenager?
(a) Narcolepsy.
(b) Alopecia.
(c) Aphasia.
(d) Bulemia.

6. What does Colman do after he sees Joss's body in the funeral parlor?
(a) Releases photos of Joss on social media.
(b) Calls his mother Millie and says things to her he does not remember.
(c) Takes the first plane to Paris.
(d) Calls his girlfriend to cry.

7. 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 Jamaica.
(c) Colman can pick a story and choose to believe where Joss's father was from.
(d) He was from London.

8. In what year does Joss Moody die?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1990.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1972.

9. What were Joss and Millie both doing the first time they met?
(a) Donating blood.
(b) Volunteering at a church.
(c) Playing music.
(d) Reading to children.

10. How does Colman feel about jazz music?
(a) He loved it.
(b) He was indifferent towards it.
(c) He absolutely hated it because he felt it took his father away from him.
(d) He never liked it.

11. What is Millie's maiden name?
(a) MacFarlane.
(b) Dursley.
(c) Dunmore.
(d) Moore.

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

13. About how many guests attend Joss's and Millie's wedding?
(a) 70.
(b) 300.
(c) 170.
(d) 100.

14. What does Colman use his keys to his parents' house in London to get in and look for?
(a) Valuable records and cassette tapes.
(b) Money.
(c) Important papers and any evidence about Joss's true past.
(d) His own artwork.

15. What did the registrar notice about Millie Moody's handwriting?
(a) It was loopy cursive.
(b) It was shaky.
(c) Millie Moody did not know how to write.
(d) It was beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Millie ask the registrar to do concerning the record of Joss Moody's death?

2. What does Millie notice about Joss every time he comes to pick her up to go out?

3. What does the registrar think about the use of red biro?

4. What does the saying over Albert Holding's door say that death hath?

5. What kind of tree did Millie and Joss plant for Colman's first birthday?

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