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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Colman feel that Joss felt about him?
(a) Colman feels that Joss always wanted him to become an artist of some kind.
(b) Colman feels that Joss was terribly proud of him.
(c) Colman feels that Joss never wanted him to become a musician.
(d) Colman feels that Joss was always disappointed in him.

2. What does Millie say is the problem when the love of your life dies?
(a) That you can not sleep.
(b) That you want to die too.
(c) That some part of you is still alive.
(d) That you can not eat.

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

4. What does Millie notice about Joss every time he comes to pick her up to go out?
(a) He is always late.
(b) He is always drunk.
(c) He is always hungry.
(d) He is always wearing a kilt.

5. Who is Joss's drummer and great friend?
(a) Billy Rines.
(b) Big Red McCall.
(c) Maniac McGee.
(d) Malcolm Gladwell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What age does the registrar guess for Millie Moody?

2. What does Joss tell Colman when he asks where Joss's father was from?

3. What was the reason the man once would not let Millie take his picture with Joss, as she describes it on page 2?

4. What is one of the affectionate gestures Colman remembers about Joss on page 45?

5. Why does Millie buy so much meat at one time on page 88?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joss first reveal his secret to Millie?

2. What kinds of dreams does Millie start to have after Joss's death?

3. What is unusual about Joss Moody's breasts?

4. What does Millie ask the registrar to do that means so much to her in registering Joss's death?

5. How do Millie and Joss first meet?

6. How does Millie's mother feel about her wedding to Joss at first, and why does she feel that way?

7. What does Colman remember Joss Moody having a lifelong phobia of?

8. In Part II, why does Colman decide not to open his father's letter addressed to him to be opened after Joss died?

9. How was the weather very unusual on the day of Joss Moody's funeral?

10. Why does Millie first suspect that Joss might be hiding something important from her when they are young and first dating?

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