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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 the doctor who examines Joss after his death have to do to make sure Joss is biologically a woman?

2. Who is Joss's drummer and great friend?

3. What does Millie compare Joss's trumpet to on page 34?

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

5. How does Joss label his letter that he leaves for Colman to read?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Millie Moody unsure if her son Colman will ever speak to her again?

4. What struck Colman the most about the attendees at his father's funeral?

5. What is the biggest fight Joss and Millie have in their marriage about?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do the circumstances under which Colman ends his relationship with Melanie say about some of the key difficulties and feelings he had with his father, Joss Moody? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support it.

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

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.

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