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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 is the name of the registrar?

2. What does Albert Holding put in his pocket that belongs to Joss Moody?

3. What is the name of the doctor who creates Joss's death certificate?

4. What happens when Joss and Millie go to the beach?

5. Where is the house that Millie flees to to escape the media spotlight in Part I of the book?

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

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

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

5. How does Joss first reveal his secret to Millie?

6. How do Millie and Joss first meet?

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

8. What does Joss Moody tell his son Colman when Colman asks him about Joss's own father?

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

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

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 2

Kay describes a wide range of character reactions to the shocking revelation that Joss Moody was born with a woman's body. Choose three characters who exhibit a range of different reactions to the revelation and analyze their reactions. Write an essay explaining what you think Kay is trying to convey to the reader about the experience of transgender people through her descriptions of these different characters' reactions.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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