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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. In Chapter 14, what did Sibyl and Rand decide to allow Connie to do?
(a) Attend the trial.
(b) Attend school rather than the trial.
(c) Date.
(d) Go to her grandmother's for the duration of the trial.

2. Who was given the first chance to speak in Sibyl's trial?
(a) Asa Bedford.
(b) Stephen Hastings.
(c) Bill Tanner.
(d) Sibyl Danforth.

3. During his opening remarks, what did Hastings use to compare home births to hospital births.
(a) Charlotte's medical records.
(b) Newspaper articles.
(c) Only the hospital statistics.
(d) Hospital statistics and Sibyl's statistics.

4. What reason did Stephen give for Asa's inability to see an arch of blood?
(a) His eyesight was too poor.
(b) He was across the room by the windows.
(c) Anne blocked his view.
(d) Sibyl made him leave the room.

5. What alternative possibility did Hastings offer Sibyl in Chapter 12?
(a) Fleeing the country.
(b) Settlement.
(c) A monetary fine.
(d) A plea-bargain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the medical examiner say he found in Charlotte's abdomen?

2. What did Connie see when she dropped off Charlotte's medical records at Hastings' office?

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

4. What was the group on the courthouse steps doing when the Danforths arrived?

5. What did Connie see on her mother's desk after returning home late one night?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was it important for the prosecution to make the point that Anne was an enthusiastic student who did not believe in interfering with birth unless absolutely necessary?

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

4. Why did Connie seem concerned about the relationship between Sibyl and Hastings?

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

6. Why did Tanner say that Sibyl should have called an ambulance toward the beginning of the delivery?

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

8. What was significant about the manner in which Sibyl stitched Charlotte's body?

9. What did Hastings say about home births to make his point about their safety relative to hospital births?

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

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