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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 object does Jacob demand from his mother Lauren at the park in Chapter 46?
2. In the scene depicting Janie's murder, what is shown to be Janie's cause of death?
3. What is depicted as Janie's nervous habit in Chapter 45?
4. Connor tells Tess that he has been seeing a therapist for how many years?
5. What action does Cecilia nearly take when she thinks about Rachel's plight in Chapter 36?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Moriarty go about using Melbourne and Syndey as foil settings within the narrative?
2. What information does Samantha, Rachel's colleague, reveal to the reader about Connor's childhood?
3. How does Cecilia find out that her mother-in-law Virginia knows of John-Paul's culpability in Janie's death?
4. What emotion keeps Tess from feeling pain when she thinks in Chapter 37 about her early days with Will?
5. How does Lucy react to Tess's revelation that she has recently slept with Connor?
6. Whose arrival does Liam announce proudly at the end of Chapter 47 and why is the moment ironic?
7. What major event in Rachel's life occurs the day after the Easter parade?
8. What faux pas does Principal Trudy commit in Chapter 41?
9. In what way is the sound motif used in concert with one of the narrative's themes?
10. What action does Rob offer to take with Rachel, though he has never done so before?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the topic of grief treated within The Husband's Secret and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 2
In what ways does The Husband's Secret portray the theme of family bonds and to which of the novel's messages does the theme connect?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Moriarty’s novel The Husband's Secret. What message is Moriarty sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
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