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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. How does Vanessa anger Richard in Chapter Thirty-Two?

4. How does Richard describe the contents of Vanessa’s notebook in Chapter Thirty-Five?

5. Where does Vanessa stay in Chapter Twenty-Five?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maureen tell Vanessa in Chapter Forty?

2. What does Vanessa fear in Chapter Thirty-Seven? Why?

3. What happens to Vanessa in Chapter Twenty-Seven? What is the cause of this situation?

4. What does Vanessa plan to do with Richard’s money, as explained in Chapter Thirty-Three?

5. What does Vanessa learn about the cake topper in Twenty-Five?

6. Why does Vanessa visit Richard’s office in Chapter Thirty-Two? What does she do there?

7. Why is Richard angry at Vanessa at the end of Chapter Twenty-Five? How does Vanessa respond?

8. What does the reader learn about Emma in the novel’s epilogue?

9. What is the importance of the black Moleskine notebook, as revealed in Chapter Thirty?

10. Where does Vanessa confront Richard in Chapter Thirty-Nine? What happens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Does the end justify the means? How does the novel answer this question? How would Vanessa answer this question? How would Emma? What about other characters, such as Maureen and Richard?

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