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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Colman feel that Joss felt about him?
(a) Colman feels that Joss never wanted him to become a musician.
(b) Colman feels that Joss always wanted him to become an artist of some kind.
(c) Colman feels that Joss was terribly proud of him.
(d) Colman feels that Joss was always disappointed in him.

2. What does Millie ask the registrar to do concerning the record of Joss Moody's death?
(a) Forgo registering his death at all.
(b) Changing the cause of death from murder to cancer.
(c) Register him as a woman.
(d) Register him as a man.

3. What does Millie compare Joss's trumpet to on page 34?
(a) A magician's hat.
(b) A soul.
(c) A golden chalice.
(d) A magic wand.

4. 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 only let people sketch him, not take his photo.
(b) He thought the camera could steal his soul.
(c) He was very private and did not want his picture in the papers.
(d) He was afraid of the camera flash.

5. What is one of the affectionate gestures Colman remembers about Joss on page 45?
(a) Joss kissed Colman often.
(b) Joss played music for Colman.
(c) Joss held Colman's hand in the street.
(d) Joss gave Colman money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the registrar make sure everyone who comes into his office has?

2. What were Joss and Millie both doing the first time they met?

3. How does Colman find out that Joss was a transgender person?

4. Who was the only friend who got to come to Torr with Colman and Millie and Joss?

5. Why does Millie buy so much meat at one time on page 88?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of dreams does Millie start to have after Joss's death?

2. In Part II, why does Colman decide not to open his father's letter addressed to him to be opened after Joss died?

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. Why does Millie Moody go to her house in Torr following her husband Joss's death?

6. How does the doctor, doctor Krishnamurty, who records Joss's death, handle the revelation that Joss has a woman's body?

7. Why is the verse from the George Gershwin song "They Can't Take That Away From Me" that Kay begins the book with so significant to Millie's life?

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

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

10. What is the biggest fight Joss and Millie have in their marriage about?

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