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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. How much money does Sophie pay Maggie for speaking with her?

2. When does Colman's relationship with Joss start to improve?

3. What does Maggie tell Sophie about her reaction when she first heard Joss was transgender?

4. Where do Millie and Joss sometimes drive and walk on the weekends together?

5. What decade does Colman remember Joss being obsessed with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joss Moody feel when he plays the trumpet?

2. What does Sophie admit that she spends too much of her money on?

3. How does Big Red McCall react when Sophie Stones calls him to ask him about Joss Moody?

4. What does Sophie Stones Tell Colman about Joss that shocks him on page 143?

5. How does Big Red McCall, Joss Moody's drummer, feel about Joss?

6. What does Colman's friend Sammy tell him about working with Sophie Stones and doing a book on Joss with her?

7. How does Colman Moody feel about the prospect of meeting Joss Moody's mother for the first time?

8. How does Colman Moody feel during his train journey from London to Glasgow to meet Sophie Stones?

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

10. What is the first thing Millie Moody asked the cleaner Maggie when she began working for the Moodys?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do the bandages that Joss Moody wears all the time to bind his breasts represent? What is the significance of his wife Millie's daily application of the bandages? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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

Colman Moody, Joss and Millie's son, carries resentments and hurt feelings towards both of his parents even before he discovers the shocking secret about his father's gender identity that they have kept from him. Write an essay exploring the origins and reasons for Joss's resentments towards his parents that predate his discovery of Joss's secret.

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