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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. In Chapter 20, what adjective does Rose use to describe bliss in her relationship with Thomas?

2. What new restaurant does Luke suggest he and Rose try in Chapter 14?

3. What is the weather when Addie is born?

4. In Chapter 15, what does Rose's mother suggest is wrong with Rose when she discovers Rose vomiting in their cottage bathroom toilet?

5. Why are Luke and Rose out celebrating dinner in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Rose describe her relationships with Thomas and Luke? What metaphor does she use?

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

4. How is the restaurant and the day described where Rose meets Thomas for the first time?

5. What does Rose promise Luke at the beginning of Part 1? Does she keep this promise?

6. What is the significance of Devonne’s character in the novel? To whom does he introduce Rose in Life 1?

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

8. How is Barcelona described? What is the tone of this passage?

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

10. At the beginning of Part II, Rose reimagines, again, the fight she has with Luke over prenatal vitamins. What version of this fight does Rose imagine? What is different about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The colors pink, lavender, and red are significant in the novel. Select one of the colors listed and write an essay analyzing how it helps enhance a larger idea, theme, or character's development.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing how the author uses the characters and their behaviors to develop and strengthen the theme of betrayal. How does Luke betray Rose? Why does Luke think Rose will "come around" to the idea of motherhood?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze how the abortion clinic is described in Life 8. How is it illustrative of choice and freedom, yet also of conflict?

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