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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 many brothers of Millie's attend her wedding to Joss?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

2. In what year did Millie and Joss first meet?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1962.

3. Why does Millie buy so much meat at one time on page 88?
(a) She is cooking for the homeless shelter.
(b) She does not want to have to go out in public very often.
(c) She is cooking for the funeral guests.
(d) She is having many visitors she needs to cook for.

4. What does Joss tell Colman when he asks where Joss's father was from?
(a) Colman can pick a story and choose to believe where Joss's father was from.
(b) He was from the West Indies.
(c) He was from Jamaica.
(d) He was from London.

5. 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 father.
(c) He wants to meet just his birth mother.
(d) He does not care at all about them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the first song Kay uses an excerpt of lyrics from in the novel?

2. What kind of tree did Millie and Joss plant for Colman's first birthday?

3. Who is the only one who knows where Millie has fled to from London in Part I?

4. How does Colman feel about jazz music?

5. What did the registrar notice about Millie Moody's handwriting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. How does Colman Moody feel about his birth parents?

6. How do Millie and Joss first meet?

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

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

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

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

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