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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. Where is the house that Millie flees to to escape the media spotlight in Part I of the book?
(a) London.
(b) Torr.
(c) Glasgow.
(d) Dublin.

2. What does the registrar take particular pride in himself for?
(a) His mastery of languages.
(b) His grooming.
(c) His fitness.
(d) His beautiful handwriting.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had the registrar never seen in his life before he saw Joss Moody's death certificate?

2. Where is the quote above Albert Holding's door in the funeral parlor from?

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

4. What musician does Kay quote before the first chapter of the novel?

5. What does Joss Moody have a lifelong phobia towards?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. How do Millie and Joss first meet?

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

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

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

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

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