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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 is the name of Nellie’s roommate, as revealed in Chapter One?
2. What color does the narrator in Chapter Two plan to dye her roots?
3. According to the narrator in the prologue, what has she set in motion?
4. Where does Charlotte have an accident Chapter Twenty-Three?
5. What is the name of Vanessa’s sorority, as revealed in Chapter Twenty-One?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Nellie see while at the Learning Ladder in Chapter Nine?
2. What problem does Nellie encounter with her wedding in Chapter Eleven?
3. What problem do Nellie and Sam encounter in Chapter Fifteen? How is this problem solved?
4. What does Vanessa remember about her mother in Chapter Ten? How does she compare herself to her mother?
5. What happens to Vanessa in Chapter Fourteen? Where does she go, and what happens there?
6. What request does Richard make of Nellie in Chapter Five? How does she respond, and what does he do in return?
7. What does Richard give Vanessa in Chapter Twenty-Two? Why?
8. According to Charlotte in Chapter Twenty, how did Vanessa start to change after marrying Richard?
9. What worries Vanessa in Chapter Four? What does she vow to do?
10. Who is Vanessa? What does the reader learn about her in Chapter Two?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does The Wife Between Us illustrate the theme of secrecy? Use textual evidence to support your analysis.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the importance of Maggie to the novel. Despite the fact that she is not physically present in the novel, she has a powerful impact on Vanessa and her development over the course of the novel. Discuss the impact of Maggie on Vanessa as well as on the novel’s plot and themes.
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Explain how the novel illustrates this idea.
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