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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 does Joss Moody die?

2. What is one of the peculiarities of Joss's death that the registrar notices?

3. What did Millie's mother suffer from when Millie was a teenager?

4. What does Albert Holding finally tell Colman about his news about Joss Moody, Colman's father?

5. What did Joss show Millie about her own mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Colman remember Joss Moody having a lifelong phobia of?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the registrar, Mr. Sharif, particularly notice and like about Millie Moody?

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

10. How does Millie's mother feel about her wedding to Joss at first, and why does she feel that way?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Colman Moody able to learn about his father - and himself - from Joss Moody's letter that Joss left for Colman to be opened after Joss's death? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

The journalist Sophie Stones reveals some of her own insecurities and vulnerabilities in the sections that Kay writes from her point of view. Write an essay analyzing the range of reactions a reader might experience towards Sophie Stones, her work, and her background as she tells it.

Essay Topic 3

How does Kay's choice to tell her story from many different characters' viewpoints affect the reader's experience of Trumpet? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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