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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 56 - 117).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the reason the man once would not let Millie take his picture with Joss, as she describes it on page 2?
(a) He was afraid of the camera flash.
(b) He only let people sketch him, not take his photo.
(c) He was very private and did not want his picture in the papers.
(d) He thought the camera could steal his soul.

2. What is one of the peculiarities of Joss's death that the registrar notices?
(a) He had made a will asking that his cause of death be recorded as cancer.
(b) He had claimed no pension.
(c) He had died in the hospital.
(d) He had died at home.

3. What unsettling thing happens in Millie's dream as she describes it on page 96?
(a) Joss gets killed in a car accident.
(b) Millie gets lost.
(c) She wears a suit and Joss wears a dress.
(d) Joss gets shot.

4. About how many guests attend Joss's and Millie's wedding?
(a) 70.
(b) 300.
(c) 100.
(d) 170.

5. What musician does Kay quote before the first chapter of the novel?
(a) Woodie Guthrie.
(b) George Gershwin.
(c) Michael Buble.
(d) Louis Armstrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would Colman know that Joss was angry with him?

2. How many brothers of Millie's attend her wedding to Joss?

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

4. Why does Joss tell Millie he wants to ask Millie's mother to dance at their wedding?

5. What does Millie think Joss would say to her if he was still alive concerning how to honor him after death?

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