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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. What event is held in Chapter Seven?

2. What classroom object haunts Nellie’s visions in Chapter Seven?

3. What does Vanessa vow to do at the end of Chapter Four?

4. What object does Nellie search for in Chapter Seventeen?

5. What does Vanessa fear about Richard’s fiancée in Chapter Eight?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Vanessa in Chapter Four, how was she a bad wife to Richard?

2. What worries Vanessa in Chapter Four? What does she vow to do?

3. What does the reader learn about Vanessa in Chapter Sixteen? Why is this surprising?

4. What information is revealed to Richard in Chapter Eight? How does he learn this information, and how does he react?

5. Who is Richard? What does the reader learn about him in Chapter One?

6. What request does Richard make of Nellie in Chapter Five? How does she respond, and what does he do in return?

7. What wedding gift does Richard give Nellie in Chapter Five? How does Nellie feel about this gift?

8. What does Nellie see while at the Learning Ladder in Chapter Nine?

9. What does the reader learn about Nellie in Chapter One?

10. According to Charlotte in Chapter Twenty, how did Vanessa start to change after marrying Richard?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think the future has in store for Vanessa after the close of the novel? Predict Vanessa’s future based on her thoughts and actions over the course of the novel as well as the growth she experiences by the end.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the significance of the title of the novel, The Wife Between Us. How does the title reflect the main characters? How does the title reflect the novel’s themes and conflicts? How does the title’s meaning change over the course of the novel?

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