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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 the name of the registrar?

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

3. What is the name of the doctor who creates Joss's death certificate?

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

5. What does Millie ask the registrar to do concerning the record of Joss Moody's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are throngs of people waiting outside of Millie Moody's house several days after Joss Moody's death and funeral?

2. How does Millie's mother feel about her wedding to Joss at first, and why does she feel that way?

3. What does Millie ask the registrar to do that means so much to her in registering Joss's death?

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

5. How was the weather very unusual on the day of Joss Moody's funeral?

6. What does Colman remember Joss Moody having a lifelong phobia of?

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

8. What struck Colman the most about the attendees at his father's funeral?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the most significant struggles and hardships in the Moodys' marriage? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Maggie, the Moodys' house cleaner, decide to give an interview to the journalist Sophie Stones, and what important information does Maggie give to Sophie about Joss Moody? How does Maggie feel about having done the interview afterwards? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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