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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 Millie ask the registrar to do concerning the record of Joss Moody's death?

2. What is the source of the biggest fight Joss and Millie ever had in their marriage?

3. What is the name of the family butcher shop that Millie has gone to since she was a child in Scotland?

4. Why does Joss tell Millie he wants to ask Millie's mother to dance at their wedding?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How do Millie and Joss first meet?

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

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

What does Joss Moody's trumpet, and his trumpet-playing career, represent? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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