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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 Colman do after he sees Joss's body in the funeral parlor?

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

3. What did Joss used to do for Millie every night they were married?

4. What is the name of Joss's first band?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How was the weather very unusual on the day of Joss Moody's funeral?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining how Colman's long meeting with his grandmother, Edith Moore, affects his decision about whether or not to continue working with Sophie Stones on the book about his father.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring the range of feelings Millie experiences while staying at her house in Torr immediately following Joss's death and the release of the news that he was a transgender person.

Essay Topic 3

Joss Moody's wife, Millie, is the only person in the world who knows that Joss is a transgender person until the time of Joss's death. Write an essay explaining how sharing this secret with Joss affected Joss's and Millie's relationship and marriage.

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