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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 happens when Joss and Millie go to the beach?
(a) Joss is afraid of the water and has to leave.
(b) Joss gets a terrible sunburn.
(c) Joss would never swim or take his clothes off.
(d) Joss and Millie see a school of dolphins.

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

3. What is one of the peculiarities of Joss's death that the registrar notices?
(a) He had died in the hospital.
(b) He had made a will asking that his cause of death be recorded as cancer.
(c) He had claimed no pension.
(d) He had died at home.

4. What was the reason the man once would not let Millie take his picture with Joss, as she describes it on page 2?
(a) He only let people sketch him, not take his photo.
(b) He was afraid of the camera flash.
(c) He was very private and did not want his picture in the papers.
(d) He thought the camera could steal his soul.

5. What does Albert Holding put in his pocket that belongs to Joss Moody?
(a) A ring.
(b) A piece of his trumpet.
(c) A button from his fine pajamas.
(d) A lock of hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Millie and Joss first meet?

2. What was Joss Moody's big, lifelong secret?

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

4. What is Millie's maiden name?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Millie Moody unsure if her son Colman will ever speak to her again?

2. What does the registrar, Mohammad Nassar Sharif, take special pride in in doing his job?

3. How do Millie and Joss first meet?

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

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

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

7. Why does Millie Moody go to her house in Torr following her husband Joss's death?

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

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

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

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