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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapters 19-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the medical examiner admit during Hastings' cross-examination?
(a) Sibyl could not have saved Charlotte.
(b) A woman who died during a C-section would have had more blood in her abdomen.
(c) Charlotte had not vagaled.
(d) Charlotte died from a stroke.

2. What shocks the Danforths when they get the call that the verdict had been reached?
(a) That they were given the verdict over the phone.
(b) That the court knew where to reach them.
(c) How quickly the jury had deliberated.
(d) That it had taken so long.

3. What does Sibyl's attorney compare Charlotte's death to?
(a) A symphony.
(b) A plane crash.
(c) Elvis' death.
(d) A car crash.

4. Which entries in Sibyl's notebook did Connie read?
(a) Only the last three entries.
(b) All those from Charlotte's death forward.
(c) Only the date on which Charlotte died.
(d) All those from Charlotte's death back.

5. What did the state's first witness describe for the jury?
(a) The bloody scene in the Bedford's bedroom.
(b) Asa's hysterical rage on the night of Charlotte's death.
(c) The state of the infant upon his arrival at the Bedford home.
(d) The storm on the night of Charlotte's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Sibyl quit college?

2. After the party, what was Sibyl doing when the ambulance arrived?

3. How old was Connie when Charlotte's family moved in?

4. What state did the Danforths live in when Connie was a child?

5. What alternative possibility did Hastings offer Sibyl in Chapter 12?

(see the answer key)

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