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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 does Rose call her and Luke trying to make a baby in Chapter 22, Lives 6 & 8.
(a) An experiment.
(b) Pointless.
(c) A never-ending dream.
(d) A disaster.

2. How does Rose describe her mother in Chapter 28?
(a) Doting and energetic.
(b) Careful and concerned.
(c) Quiet and calm.
(d) Boundless and cheerful.

3. Why does Rose's mother want her to meet someone in Chapter 28?
(a) So Rose is not alone after her mother passes.
(b) So she has someone to help her financially.
(c) So she can forget about Luke.
(d) So she can have a baby with someone.

4. In Chapter 26, what does Rose admit to her mother when she sets up a doctor's appointment for her?
(a) Started meditating to help with anxiety and stress.
(b) Started learning a new language.
(c) Stopped going to the gym.
(d) Stopped looking at pictures of Luke and Cheryl online.

5. In Chapter 31, when Rose finally tells Luke that she wants a divorce, what does Luke ask?
(a) What about Addie?
(b) What about us?
(c) What will your parents think?
(d) What will my parents think?

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 27, what conversation topic with college students does Rose recall in thinking about sex with Luke?

2. What does Rose confess she has been thinking a lot about lately in Chapter 42?

3. What does Luke jokingly say Cheryl does not know how to do in Chapter 42?

4. In Chapter 35, how does Rose describe the way Luke says her name during their argument over the pill bottle?

5. Who does Rose finally tell about her affair with Thomas in Chapter 31?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rose describe her love for Addie in Life 5?

2. After Luke and Rose have “The Sex,” what does Luke suggest they do if their attempts to make a baby fail? How does Rose respond?

3. In Chapter 40, what is the significance of Rose deciding to jump off the beach cliff with Addie?

4. What does Rose say parenthood turns people into after Addie does not answer her cell phone?

5. Why does Rose compare ending her marriage to a “slow-moving train” (298)?

6. In Life 8, Rose describes how her sex life with Luke “is going to end [her]” (251). What do you think Rose means by this statement?

7. What version of the fight over the prenatal vitamins does Rose reimagine in Lives 5 & 6 at the beginning of Part 4?

8. When Luke finally agrees to photograph Rose's dying mother in the hospital, what does Rose suddenly remember about Luke?

9. How does Luke respond to Rose’s suggestion of adoption? What happens the next day?

10. What reason does Rose’s colleague and friend, Brandy, give for scheduling weekly sex with her partner?

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