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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 does Rose put on to have scheduled sex with Luke in Chapter 27?
2. At the beginning of Chapter 28, what does Rose ask her mother?
3. Who does Rose finally tell about her affair with Thomas in Chapter 31?
4. Where is Rose when she meets Thomas in Chapter 34, Lives 1 & 2?
5. Back at the hospital, what does Rose see in her mother in Chapter 28?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Rose get angry at Luke for listening to her speak aloud to her pregnant stomach?
2. When Luke finally agrees to photograph Rose's dying mother in the hospital, what does Rose suddenly remember about Luke?
3. In Chapter 35, what does Rose want to do with her eggs?
4. 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?
5. When Addie finally returns Rose's messages at the end of Chapter 36, what does Rose tell her daughter?
6. 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?
7. How and who is Rose introduced to at the hospital where her mother receives chemo treatments?
8. How does Luke respond to Rose’s suggestion of adoption? What happens the next day?
9. Why does Rose compare ending her marriage to a “slow-moving train” (298)?
10. How does Rose describe her love for Luke when they are on their honeymoon?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As the novel progresses, Rose and her mother's relationship becomes more open and honest. What causes this honesty between mother-daughter? Does Rose's mother stay the same or change?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing Luke's relationship with his parents, Nancy and Joe. Why do they pressure him to have a child? What impact do they have on his life with Rose?
Essay Topic 3
Rose has many reliable, female friendships and relationships in the novel. Select one relationship Rose has with another woman and explain its significant in relation to one of the novel's themes of motherhood, love, loss, betrayal, choice, or sexuality.
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