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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 did Mohammad most often observe about a pensioner there to register a parent's death?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Elation.
(d) Indifference.

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

3. Where is the quote above Albert Holding's door in the funeral parlor from?
(a) The Wars.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Prince.
(d) The Duchess of Malfi.

4. What kind of a band plays at Joss's funeral?
(a) A rap group.
(b) A hip-hop group.
(c) An American country music band.
(d) A Celtic band.

5. What did Joss show Millie about her own mother?
(a) That her mother had a very angry nature.
(b) That her mother had a wonderful sense of humor.
(c) That her mother loved fashion and makeup, which she never knew.
(d) A side to her mother she never knew existed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor use to correct the initial death certificate for Joss after examining him?

2. How does Colman feel that Joss felt about him?

3. How does Colman feel towards his birth parents, whom he has never met?

4. What does Millie think Joss would say to her if he was still alive concerning how to honor him after death?

5. Who is one of Colman's closest friends?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do Millie and Joss first meet?

4. What is the biggest fight Joss and Millie have in their marriage about?

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. Why is Millie asking a locksmith to change the locks on her doors in Part II?

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

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