Trumpet: Test | Final Test - Hard

Jackie Kay
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 146 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Trumpet: Test | Final Test - Hard

Jackie Kay
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 146 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 Colman's preferred alcoholic drink?

2. What shocks and dismays Millie the most about the letters she receives from Sophie Stones?

3. What does Millie think about Joss's spirit in the wake of his death?

4. What kind of list does Millie make on page 157?

5. Where does Colman Moody live?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Colman help Millie immediately after Joss's death?

2. What does Sophie Stones ask Colman to give to her and let her read that she feels is very important?

3. Why does Colman quit his job as a courier right after Joss's funeral?

4. How does Maggie feel about the Moodys as a family, and how they treated her as their cleaner?

5. What was Millie's favorite day with Joss, and why did she cherish it so much?

6. What does Maggie notice about Joss Moody almost immediately after meeting him?

7. Why is Melanie called Melanie, instead of her given name, Ruth?

8. What is Colman Moody's own flat in London like?

9. What does Colman think about the relationship he had with Joss just before Joss died?

10. How does Sophie Stones feel about her sister, Sarah?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring the range of feelings Millie experiences while staying at her house in Torr immediately following Joss's death and the release of the news that he was a transgender person.

Essay Topic 2

Joss Moody's wife, Millie, is the only person in the world who knows that Joss is a transgender person until the time of Joss's death. Write an essay explaining how sharing this secret with Joss affected Joss's and Millie's relationship and marriage.

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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