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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 is the name of the registrar?

2. What did Joss show Millie about her own mother?

3. What was Joss Moody's big, lifelong secret?

4. What phrase does Joss use that Colman particularly likes?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Joss Moody tell his son Colman when Colman asks him about Joss's own father?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Colman Moody, Joss and Millie's son, carries resentments and hurt feelings towards both of his parents even before he discovers the shocking secret about his father's gender identity that they have kept from him. Write an essay exploring the origins and reasons for Joss's resentments towards his parents that predate his discovery of Joss's secret.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Maggie, the Moodys' house cleaner, decide to give an interview to the journalist Sophie Stones, and what important information does Maggie give to Sophie about Joss Moody? How does Maggie feel about having done the interview afterwards? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What are Kay's most powerful and emotionally resonant depictions of Millie's grief in the wake of Joss's death? How does Kay manage to separate the somewhat mundane grief of a shattered widow from the extraordinary stresses Millie is dealing with in the wake of Joss's death? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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