Trumpet: Test | Final Test - Hard

Jackie Kay
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 146 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Trumpet: Test | Final Test - Hard

Jackie Kay
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 146 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Where does Colman Moody live?

2. What did Joss buy Colman as a present when he was a teenager that Colman feels has a different meaning now?

3. What kind of lessons does Joss end up giving Colman's first girlfriend that he brings home?

4. What does Big Red McCall forget about Joss's death?

5. What did Josephine bring for Edith to eat the last time she visited Edith?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Melanie called Melanie, instead of her given name, Ruth?

3. Why does Colman get up and follow a man, another passenger, on the train to Glasgow?

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

5. What was Millie's favorite day with Joss, and why did she cherish it so much?

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 during his train journey from London to Glasgow to meet Sophie Stones?

8. What does Maggie notice about Joss Moody almost immediately after meeting him?

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

10. How does Millie Moody feel when she begins getting multiple letters from Sophie Stones?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How does Kay's choice to tell her story from many different characters' viewpoints affect the reader's experience of Trumpet? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining how Colman's long meeting with his grandmother, Edith Moore, affects his decision about whether or not to continue working with Sophie Stones on the book about his father.

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