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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. Whom does Vanessa pretend to be in Chapter Thirty-Two?
2. What position did Vanessa hold in her sorority, as revealed in Chapter Twenty-Seven?
3. What is Emma’s true identity?
4. According to Maureen in Chapter Forty, who had actually purchased the cake topper?
5. For what is Richard being treated in Chapter Forty?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Vanessa contact Emma in Chapter Thirty? How does Vanessa feel she has wronged her?
2. What secret has Vanessa been keeping from Richard in Chapter Twenty-Eight?
3. How does Maureen respond to the situation in Chapter Thirty-Nine?
4. Who is Kate? What does the reader learn about her in Chapter Forty-One?
5. What does the reader learn about Emma in the novel’s epilogue?
6. For what does Richard accept blame in Chapter Thirty-Five? What changes does he say must be made?
7. What is the worst of Richard’s cruelties, and how does Vanessa discover it in Chapter Thirty-Four?
8. What does Vanessa learn about the cake topper in Twenty-Five?
9. What does Vanessa plan to do with Richard’s money, as explained in Chapter Thirty-Three?
10. What is the importance of the black Moleskine notebook, as revealed in Chapter Thirty?
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
Vanessa experiences great change over the course of the novel. In what ways does she change and in what ways does she remain the same? By the novel’s end, is she better for these changes? What makes you say this? Explain your opinion using examples from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the influence Vanessa’s mother has on her character and on the novel as a whole.
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