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Jackie Kay
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 146 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Trumpet: Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Jackie Kay
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 146 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. What natural disaster event happened as Colman was born?
(a) A tsunami.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) A wildfire.
(d) A tornado.

2. What was Joss Moody's big, lifelong secret?
(a) He was born into poor beginnings.
(b) He could not really play the piano.
(c) He was a transgender person.
(d) He was black, but he looked white.

3. Who is the only one who knows where Millie has fled to from London in Part I?
(a) Big Red.
(b) Joss.
(c) Edith.
(d) Colman.

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

5. What does Joss Moody have a lifelong phobia towards?
(a) Makeup.
(b) Needles.
(c) Spiders.
(d) Hospitals and doctors.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Joss show Millie about her own mother?

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

5. What is the name of the family butcher shop that Millie has gone to since she was a child in Scotland?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. Why was Millie so tense when her mother came to visit she and Joss in their own flat early in their marriage?

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

7. What does the registrar, Mr. Sharif, particularly notice and like about Millie Moody?

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

9. Why is the verse from the George Gershwin song "They Can't Take That Away From Me" that Kay begins the book with so significant to Millie's life?

10. How do Millie and Joss first meet?

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