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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joss tell Colman when he asks where Joss's father was from?

2. What does the registrar make sure everyone who comes into his office has?

3. What was Joss Moody's birth name?

4. In what city did Joss and Millie first meet?

5. Who was the only friend who got to come to Torr with Colman and Millie and Joss?

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

3. How do Millie and Joss first meet?

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

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

6. How does the doctor, doctor Krishnamurty, who records Joss's death, handle the revelation that Joss has a woman's body?

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

8. What kinds of dreams does Millie start to have after Joss's death?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring the prejudices, biases, and racist attitudes that Joss and Millie encountered when they began dating and eventually got married.

Essay Topic 2

The journalist Sophie Stones reveals some of her own insecurities and vulnerabilities in the sections that Kay writes from her point of view. Write an essay analyzing the range of reactions a reader might experience towards Sophie Stones, her work, and her background as she tells it.

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the novel, Colman and Millie are about to meet face-to-face for the first time since Colman found out that his father Joss was born as a woman. Given all that has transpired in the novel to this point, write an essay predicting what you think may transpire during this meeting. Will Colman and his mother be able to find mutual forgiveness and forge a path towards a peaceful relationship?

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