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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. In in Chapter Twenty-Six, how does Vanessa describe her feelings for her dog?
2. What does Vanessa purchase at the start of Chapter Thirty-Eight?
3. What is the culminating event of the initiation ritual, as explained in Chapter Twenty-Four?
4. What shocking information does Vanessa learn about Daniel in Chapter Twenty-Four?
5. Why does Charlotte call Vanessa at the end of Chapter Twenty-Eight?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Vanessa tries to confront Daniel in Chapter Twenty-Four? What does she learn?
2. What does Richard tell Vanessa in Chapter Forty? How does Vanessa respond?
3. What does Vanessa fear in Chapter Thirty-Seven? Why?
4. What is the importance of the black Moleskine notebook, as revealed in Chapter Thirty?
5. What secret has Vanessa been keeping from Richard in Chapter Twenty-Eight?
6. Who is Kate? What does the reader learn about her in Chapter Forty-One?
7. What does Vanessa send to Emma in Chapter Thirty-Three? Why?
8. For what does Richard accept blame in Chapter Thirty-Five? What changes does he say must be made?
9. Who is Jason? How has he had an impact on Vanessa, as revealed in Chapter Twenty-Nine?
10. Why does Vanessa visit Richard’s office in Chapter Thirty-Two? What does she do there?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Vanessa’s contradictory characteristics. In what ways is she a principled person? In what ways is she unprincipled? Ultimately, is she a good person or a bad one?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the influence Vanessa’s mother has on her character and on the novel as a whole.
Essay Topic 3
Obsession is a major theme of The Wife Between Us. Choose three situations in which this theme is illustrated. Explain how each situation illustrates obsession, and evaluate what the authors are trying to say about this subject.
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