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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 Sibyl try to do after delivering Charlotte's baby?
(a) Clean up the mess she had made.
(b) Revive Charlotte.
(c) Call the police.
(d) Convince Asa to look at Charlotte.

2. As Sibyl's student, what did Anne believe about home births?
(a) Interference is usually necessary.
(b) Patients should be given painkillers.
(c) There should be as little interference as possible.
(d) A doctor should be present.

3. During what month did the Danforth's wait to learn what the charges against Sibyl would be?
(a) July.
(b) May.
(c) August.
(d) April.

4. Stephen Hastings brought in experts on what two things before Sibyl had been charged?
(a) Home births and aneurisms.
(b) High blood pressure and blood evidence.
(c) Home births and blood evidence.
(d) High blood pressure and aneurisms.

5. What did Connie notice about Hastings and Sibyl as the trial was about to begin?
(a) They seemed to dislike each other.
(b) They were flirting with each other.
(c) Sibyl seemed to be afraid of Hastings.
(d) They seemed to disagree about Sibyl's defense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the state trooper say he saw in the Bedford's sink?

2. When did Tanner's opening remarks end?

3. How did Connie enter the house on the night she came home late in Chapter 17?

4. What does Connie think of the investigator Hastings hired?

5. What did Tanner say Sibyl should have known because she was a lifelong resident of Vermont?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the term "vagaled" mean?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What realization did Connie come to while she was watching the goings on in the court during the jury selection?

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