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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. Where is Vanessa hiding at the start of Chapter Thirty-Seven?
2. What does Vanessa admit to missing in Chapter Twenty-Eight?
3. According to Vanessa in Chapter Thirty, how is she responsible for the end of her marriage?
4. According to Vanessa in Chapter Thirty, who has she wronged the most?
5. What does Vanessa take from Richard’s office in Chapter Thirty-Two?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the importance of the black Moleskine notebook, as revealed in Chapter Thirty?
2. What does the reader learn about Emma in the novel’s epilogue?
3. How does Vanessa compare Maggie and Emma in in Chapter Twenty-Four? What does she resolve to do?
4. What does Vanessa learn about the cake topper in Twenty-Five?
5. What tragedy occurs during the Chi Omega initiation ritual, as revealed in Chapter Twenty-Four?
6. What does Richard tell Vanessa in Chapter Forty? How does Vanessa respond?
7. Where does Vanessa confront Richard in Chapter Thirty-Nine? What happens?
8. What happens to Vanessa’s notebook, as revealed in Chapter Thirty-Five?
9. What does Vanessa plan to do with Richard’s money, as explained in Chapter Thirty-Three?
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
How does The Wife Between Us illustrate the theme of secrecy? Use textual evidence to support your analysis.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the characters of Charlotte, Sam, and Lucille. How do these characters impact Vanessa and her development? How do they further develop the novel’s themes?
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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