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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. Where is the quote above Albert Holding's door in the funeral parlor from?
2. What is the name of the journalist who is working on a book about Joss Moody?
3. What age does the registrar guess for Millie Moody?
4. What were Joss and Millie both doing the first time they met?
5. What does Millie say is the problem when the love of your life dies?
Short Essay Questions
1. What struck Colman the most about the attendees at his father's funeral?
2. What does the registrar, Mohammad Nassar Sharif, take special pride in in doing his job?
3. What does Millie ask the registrar to do that means so much to her in registering Joss's death?
4. How does Colman Moody find out that his father Joss Moody was a transgender person?
5. Why is the verse from the George Gershwin song "They Can't Take That Away From Me" that Kay begins the book with so significant to Millie's life?
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. Why does Millie first suspect that Joss might be hiding something important from her when they are young and first dating?
9. What does the registrar, Mr. Sharif, particularly notice and like about Millie Moody?
10. Why are throngs of people waiting outside of Millie Moody's house several days after Joss Moody's death and funeral?
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
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 3
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.
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