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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 did Anne's testimony cause the jury to do?

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

3. What did the medical examiner say he believed happened during Charlotte's labor?

4. What did Connie initially think the investigator Hastings hired was?

5. When did Tanner's opening remarks end?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Sibyl sew up Charlotte's abdomen after the baby was delivered?

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

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

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

5. Why did many of Sibyl's clients attend the trial with their infants?

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

7. Why was Hastings' winning of a motion to review Charlotte's medical records important?

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

9. Why did the prosecutor put the state trooper on the stand to testify?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Connie react to Sibyl and Hastings' relationship in the way she did? Is her view of the relationship reliable? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Sibyl choose to refuse any settlement agreements? What does this reveal about her? How does her decision affect Connie?

Essay Topic 3

What evidence is there that Connie's relationship with her mother changes as the story progresses? Why does the relationship change? What is the state of Connie's relationship with her mother before Sibyl's death?

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