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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 keeps Rose in her marriage with Luke in Chapter 27?
2. What causes a major shift in Rose and Luke's relationship in Chapter 27, Life 8?
3. Where does Rose's mother sleep when visiting her in Chapter 28?
4. At the beginning of Chapter 28, what does Rose ask her mother?
5. The more Rose's marriage frays, the more Rose does what in Chapter 31?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Rose get angry at Luke for listening to her speak aloud to her pregnant stomach?
2. How does Rose describe her love for Luke when they are on their honeymoon?
3. How does the novel end? What realization does Rose have?
4. How does Luke respond to Rose’s suggestion of adoption? What happens the next day?
5. How and who is Rose introduced to at the hospital where her mother receives chemo treatments?
6. How would you describe the moment Rose realizes Luke is “evaluating” her behavior as a mother? Where are Luke and Rose?
7. How is Rose’s mother different from Rose? How does her mother respond after Rose says that they are two very different people?
8. What does Rose say parenthood turns people into after Addie does not answer her cell phone?
9. What version of the fight over the prenatal vitamins does Rose reimagine in Lives 5 & 6 at the beginning of Part 4?
10. At the beginning of Chapter 32, what reason does Rose give Addie for not letting her see her grandmother?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
Choice, or the lack thereof, is a common theme in the novel. Analyze the outcomes of Rose's own choices and her reasoning for them. How do her choices illustrate her identity? How do they dissolve her sense of identity?
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