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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. In what year did Millie and Joss first meet?

2. What does the registrar take particular pride in himself for?

3. What style of music did Joss Moody play?

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

5. About how many guests attend Joss's and Millie's wedding?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How was the weather very unusual on the day of Joss Moody's 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 is Millie Moody unsure if her son Colman will ever speak to her again?

8. How do Millie and Joss first meet?

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

10. Why does Millie first suspect that Joss might be hiding something important from her when they are young and first dating?

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

What are some of the most significant struggles and hardships in the Moodys' marriage? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your answers.

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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