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

2. What did the medical examiner say he found in Charlotte's abdomen?
(a) A well-sutured uterus.
(b) A tumor.
(c) Another baby.
(d) A lot of blood.

3. What kind of jury did Hastings want?
(a) One filled with young, childless women.
(b) One filled with understanding older women.
(c) One filled with fathers.
(d) One filled with pregnant women.

4. How did Connie enter the house on the night she came home late in Chapter 17?
(a) Through the window of her mother's office.
(b) Through her bedroom window.
(c) The back door.
(d) The front door.

5. What did the medical examiner say was Charlotte's cause of death?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) The C-section.
(c) Vagaling.
(d) A stroke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Connie begin to realize Charlotte had as she watched the jury selection?

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

3. What did the female past-patient that Tanner put on the stand say in her testimony?

4. What reason did Stephen give for Asa's inability to see an arch of blood?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the term "vagaled" mean?

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

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

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