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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 was the given first name of the girlfriend who is the first girl Colman brings home?
2. What does Colman remember his mother saying he went around with on page 165?
3. Who is Sophie Stones' sister?
4. What does Colman tell Sophie her eyes are the same color as?
5. What is the black man on the train whom Colman thinks looks like Joss carrying?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Colman break up with his girlfriend Melanie?
2. Why does Colman quit his job as a courier right after Joss's funeral?
3. How does Colman help Millie immediately after Joss's death?
4. What was Millie's favorite day with Joss, and why did she cherish it so much?
5. What does Colman's friend Sammy tell him about working with Sophie Stones and doing a book on Joss with her?
6. How does Joss Moody feel when he plays the trumpet?
7. Why is Melanie called Melanie, instead of her given name, Ruth?
8. How does Big Red McCall, Joss Moody's drummer, feel about Joss?
9. What does Colman think is the first thing he would ask his father Joss Moody if he had the opportunity to ask him one thing again?
10. What does Maggie tell Sophie Stones that Sophie is delighted with?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Write an essay explaining how Colman's long meeting with his grandmother, Edith Moore, affects his decision about whether or not to continue working with Sophie Stones on the book about his father.
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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