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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Connie see when she dropped off Charlotte's medical records at Hastings' office?
(a) Hastings joking with the prosecutor.
(b) Notes about Sibyl's trial.
(c) Hastings and Sibyl kissing.
(d) A bill for his legal services.

2. What did Hastings say Anne failed to do?
(a) Tell the truth on the stand.
(b) Call the police.
(c) Stop Sibyl from performing the C-section.
(d) Appropriately assist Sibyl.

3. When did Hastings' opening remarks begin?
(a) After lunch.
(b) Late evening.
(c) On the second day of the trial.
(d) Before Tanner's.

4. What was happening outside during the opening remarks?
(a) People were marching with "Convict the Midwife" signs.
(b) The midwives were causing a riot.
(c) It was a beautiful, sunny day.
(d) Storm clouds were approaching.

5. What did Tanner say Sibyl forced Charlotte to do?
(a) Take the wrong medication.
(b) Hire her.
(c) Push too long.
(d) Send Asa from the room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who admitted during cross-examination that Sibyl did not know about Charlotte's medical history?

2. How did Tanner describe Charlotte in his opening statement?

3. Stephen Hastings brought in experts on what two things before Sibyl had been charged?

4. What did the state's first witness describe for the jury?

5. What was Sibyl instructed not to do as part of her bail agreement?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Connie's reading the journal show the reader that her relationship with Sibyl had changed?

2. How did Anne's testimony make the jury begin to see Charlotte as a real person?

3. Why did Hastings say that Asa could not possibly have seen the blood arch coming from Charlotte's abdomen?

4. Why was Hastings' cross-examination of the midwife turned Ob-Gyn important?

5. Why did Connie continue to read other entries in Sibyl's journal after reading the one she found the notebook opened to?

6. What was unusual about Hastings' delivery of the manslaughter charges to Sibyl?

7. Why did Hastings involve blood evidence and home birth experts before Sibyl was even charged?

8. Why was the medical examiner's testimony particularly harmful to Sibyl's defense?

9. What was Connie's reaction to seeing the word "vagal" written on a conference room board at Hastings' place of business?

10. Why did Sibyl refuse to accept any possible settlements that might be offered?

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