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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 was the name of Joss's last album?
(a) Wee Blue Bird.
(b) Rubric.
(c) Torr.
(d) The Best of Joss Moody.

2. What did Joss make for breakfast frequently that Millie can not quite make as well?
(a) Waffles.
(b) French toast.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) Scrambled eggs.

3. What instrument did Joss try to encourage Colman to play?
(a) Drums.
(b) Piano.
(c) Trumpet.
(d) Guitar.

4. How does Joss act around the first girlfriend Colman brings home, at least at first?
(a) Extremely formal and cordial.
(b) Joss leaves when the girlfriend arrives.
(c) Edgy and nervous.
(d) Joss ignores the girlfriend.

5. What does Joss think would have become of him much earlier in life if not for his trumpet?
(a) He would have been destitute.
(b) He would have been dead and gone.
(c) He would have become a prostitute.
(d) He would have lived his life only as a woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Colman call the morning he leaves for Glasgow from London?

2. What is the black man on the train whom Colman thinks looks like Joss carrying?

3. What does Sophie Stones tell Colman about his father's family that shocks Colman?

4. What was the given first name of the girlfriend who is the first girl Colman brings home?

5. What does Joss remember his father liking to do on page 183?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Maggie feel about the Moodys as a family, and how they treated her as their cleaner?

2. How does Joss Moody feel when he plays the trumpet?

3. How does Colman help Millie immediately after Joss's death?

4. Why does Colman break up with his girlfriend Melanie?

5. What does Colman think about the relationship he had with Joss just before Joss died?

6. What does Maggie notice about Joss Moody almost immediately after meeting him?

7. What does Colman's friend Sammy tell him about working with Sophie Stones and doing a book on Joss with her?

8. What does Sophie admit that she spends too much of her money on?

9. How does Colman Moody feel about the prospect of meeting Joss Moody's mother for the first time?

10. How does Big Red McCall react when Sophie Stones calls him to ask him about Joss Moody?

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