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

2. What could the registrar tell about a person as soon as they walked into his office?
(a) What they were there for - a birth, death, or wedding.
(b) How much money they had.
(c) What their handwriting would look like.
(d) How long they would stay.

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

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

5. Why does Joss tell Millie he wants to ask Millie's mother to dance at their wedding?
(a) Because she looks lonely.
(b) To break the ice with her.
(c) Because she is a great dancer.
(d) Because she loves dancing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument did Joss Moody play?

2. How would Colman know that Joss was angry with him?

3. What is one of the peculiarities of Joss's death that the registrar notices?

4. What does Albert Holding finally tell Colman about his news about Joss Moody, Colman's father?

5. What does the undertaker tell his one-time girlfriend that terrifies her on page 104?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the doctor, doctor Krishnamurty, who records Joss's death, handle the revelation that Joss has a woman's body?

3. What does Joss Moody tell his son Colman when Colman asks him about Joss's own father?

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

5. Why are throngs of people waiting outside of Millie Moody's house several days after Joss Moody's death and funeral?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Colman Moody find out that his father Joss Moody was a transgender person?

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