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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. Who is the narrator of the epilogue?
2. How does Vanessa feel upon the loss of her dog in Chapter Twenty-Six?
3. According to Vanessa in Chapter Thirty-Two, how does she know Richard’s focus is shifting away from her?
4. What does Vanessa accidentally break during the party in Chapter Twenty-Eight?
5. With what does Vanessa provoke Richard in Chapter Thirty-Nine?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the reader learn about Emma in the novel’s epilogue?
2. Who is Jason? How has he had an impact on Vanessa, as revealed in Chapter Twenty-Nine?
3. Why does Vanessa visit Richard’s office in Chapter Thirty-Two? What does she do there?
4. What tragedy occurs during the Chi Omega initiation ritual, as revealed in Chapter Twenty-Four?
5. What does Vanessa learn about the cake topper in Twenty-Five?
6. How does Vanessa compare Maggie and Emma in in Chapter Twenty-Four? What does she resolve to do?
7. Why is Richard angry at Vanessa at the end of Chapter Twenty-Five? How does Vanessa respond?
8. How does Vanessa intentionally anger Richard before and during the cocktail party in Chapter Thirty-Two? Why does she do this?
9. What is the importance of the black Moleskine notebook, as revealed in Chapter Thirty?
10. How does Vanessa contact Emma in Chapter Thirty? How does Vanessa feel she has wronged her?
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
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.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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