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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 color bathing suit does Addie wear in Chapter 40?

2. Who is Addie talking to when Rose meets her to jump off the cliff in Chapter 40?

3. What news does Addie share with her parents one night at dinner in Chapter 40?

4. What causes a major shift in Rose and Luke's relationship in Chapter 27, Life 8?

5. In Chapter 39, in the final argument about the pill bottle, what does Rose say to Luke as she is packing to leave?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 35, what does Rose want to do with her eggs?

2. After Rose's mother dies, what is Rose's immediate reaction?

3. Why does Rose get angry at Luke for listening to her speak aloud to her pregnant stomach?

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

5. In Chapter 36, Addie will not answer the phone after Rose tries to call her. What does Rose confess she wants to tell her own mother?

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. How and who is Rose introduced to at the hospital where her mother receives chemo treatments?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing and then analyzing Rose's relationship with Thomas in its many versions. What does Thomas represent as a character? How does he impact Rose's life and identity?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay defining and analyzing the term "mother" as described through Rose's eyes. How does Rose's relationship with her own mother define what motherhood means to her?

Essay Topic 3

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano is told through a narrator who reimagines different outcomes of her life. Analyze Donna Freitas's choice to tell the story from this unique narrative structure via Rose's point of view. How does Rose reimagining her life in nine ways affect the plot?

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