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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. Why does Joss tell Millie he wants to ask Millie's mother to dance at their wedding?
(a) Because she looks lonely.
(b) To break the ice with her.
(c) Because she is a great dancer.
(d) Because she loves dancing.

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

3. What instrument did Joss Moody play?
(a) Trumpet.
(b) French horn.
(c) Drums.
(d) Piano.

4. In what city did Joss and Millie first meet?
(a) Paris.
(b) Dublin.
(c) London.
(d) Glasgow.

5. What is the name of the funeral director who manages Joss's funeral?
(a) James Keynes.
(b) Albert Holding.
(c) Michael Moore.
(d) John Hardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Millie ask the registrar to do concerning the record of Joss Moody's death?

2. How does Colman find out that Joss was a transgender person?

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

4. What kinds of disputes does the registrar often intervene in and mitigate?

5. What does the saying over Albert Holding's door say that death hath?

Short Essay Questions

1. What struck Colman the most about the attendees at his father's funeral?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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