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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. How does Rose describe Barcelona in Chapter 16?

2. What does Rose cook when she tells Luke that she is pregnant in Chapter 15?

3. Whom is captured in Luke's first photograph that he took as a kid in Chapter 2?

4. What does Luke admit is his fault in Chapter 6, Life 2 after their fight over the pill bottle?

5. In Chapter 18, what is Mai's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in the second retelling of the prenatal vitamin pill fight between Luke and Rose? How is it different from the first account?

2. In Barcelona, what do Rose and Frankie discuss at the restaurant?

3. How is Thomas’s apartment described and how does it make Rose feel?

4. What happens after Rose discovers she has made tenure at her university? How does Luke react?

5. In Chapter 5, after Luke has walked out on Rose, why does he call Rose? What news does he relay?

6. How is Luke described during Rose’s photoshoot in Part 1?

7. What is the narrative point of view of The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano?

8. How is Jill described when readers first meet her? Why does she come over to deliver gifts around Christmas time?

9. How does Rose’s mother react after Rose confesses that her that she and Luke are having problems in their marriage?

10. In Life 2, how and when does Rose ask Luke if he is seeing someone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think the author chose to write about how women must often balance careers, relationships, and motherhood? What connections beyond the text might she be making?

Essay Topic 2

Rose goes through many changes throughout the novel, as she reimagines the possibilities of her different lives. In what ways does Rose change and in what ways does she stay true to herself?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze how Rose's self confidence shifts and changes throughout the novel. How do others' opinions and expectations of her reinforce or diminish her confidence and self-esteem? What impact do they have on her emotionally?

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