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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 Nellie doing in Chapter Seventeen?

2. What is the name of Vanessa’s boss, as revealed in Chapter Four?

3. What is Vanessa’s natural hair color, as revealed in Chapter Sixteen?

4. What does Richard force Nellie to wear in Chapter Five even though it makes her uncomfortable?

5. Who kisses Nellie against her wishes in Chapter Seven?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Vanessa in Chapter Fourteen? Where does she go, and what happens there?

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

3. What request does Richard make of Nellie in Chapter Five? How does she respond, and what does he do in return?

4. What information is revealed to Richard in Chapter Eight? How does he learn this information, and how does he react?

5. Who is Maureen? What happens when Nellie meets her for the first time in Chapter Thirteen?

6. How does Nellie feel about Richard? How do others feel about Richard, as revealed in Chapter One?

7. What does Richard give Vanessa in Chapter Twenty-Two? Why?

8. According to Vanessa in Chapter Four, how was she a bad wife to Richard?

9. What does the reader learn about Vanessa in Chapter Sixteen? Why is this surprising?

10. What does Nellie see while at the Learning Ladder in Chapter Nine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Vanessa finds herself involved in several conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the novel and on the other characters.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the symbol of the cake topper in The Wife Between Us. How does it represent Richard and his relationship with Vanessa? How does it symbolize the novel’s themes and conflicts? How does it change in meaning over the course of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the influence Vanessa’s mother has on her character and on the novel as a whole.

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