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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 classroom object haunts Nellie’s visions in Chapter Seven?

2. According to Vanessa in Chapter Four, why had she not deserved a larger settlement in the divorce?

3. What is wrong with Charlotte in Chapter Ten?

4. What does Richard give to Vanessa at the end of Chapter Twenty-Two?

5. What does Nellie teach, as explained in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the reader learn about Nellie in Chapter One?

2. Who is Daniel Barton? What does the reader learn about him in Chapter Twenty-One?

3. What accident happens in Chapter Twenty-Three? What does Vanessa learn as a result?

4. What odd occurrence happens to Vanessa while home alone in Chapter Twenty-One?

5. Where does Vanessa work? What happens to her at work in Chapter Two?

6. What does Richard’s neighbor tell Nellie in Chapter Nine?

7. What does Vanessa remember about her mother in Chapter Ten? How does she compare herself to her mother?

8. How does Vanessa’s life change after her marriage to Richard in Chapter Six?

9. What shocking information is revealed to the reader in Chapter Eighteen?

10. Who is Richard? What does the reader learn about him in Chapter One?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the theme of sight as it pertains to the novel. How does the issue of sight—both literal and figurative—affect the characters in the novel? How does an inability to see clearly propel the novel’s conflicts and themes?

Essay Topic 3

Appearances in The Wife Between Us can be deceiving. How do appearances differ from reality in this novel? Discuss three characters, objects, or situations and how this idea applies to each.

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