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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. What is the source of the biggest fight Joss and Millie ever had in their marriage?
(a) When Millie asks Joss to give up the trumpet.
(b) When Millie is upset they can not have children of their own.
(c) When Millie asks Joss to take her on the road with him when he performs.
(d) When Millie asks Joss to start living openly as a woman.

2. In what city did Joss and Millie first meet?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Glasgow.

3. What happens when Joss and Millie go to the beach?
(a) Joss gets a terrible sunburn.
(b) Joss would never swim or take his clothes off.
(c) Joss is afraid of the water and has to leave.
(d) Joss and Millie see a school of dolphins.

4. What style of music did Joss Moody play?
(a) Rock and roll.
(b) Rap.
(c) Classical.
(d) Jazz.

5. What does Millie see that first make her realize Joss is a transgender person?
(a) Joss's underwear.
(b) Joss's makeup.
(c) Joss's breasts.
(d) Joss's dresses in his closet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joss Moody have a lifelong phobia towards?

2. What does Millie notice about Joss every time he comes to pick her up to go out?

3. What is the title of the first song Kay uses an excerpt of lyrics from in the novel?

4. What did Mohammad most often observe about a pensioner there to register a parent's death?

5. About how many guests attend Joss's and Millie's wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Millie and Joss first meet?

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 Joss Moody tell his son Colman when Colman asks him about Joss's own father?

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

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

6. What does the registrar, Mohammad Nassar Sharif, take special pride in in doing his job?

7. What is unusual about Joss Moody's breasts?

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

9. What does the registrar, Mr. Sharif, particularly notice and like about Millie Moody?

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

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