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

2. Where was the arch of blood supposed to have been coming from?
(a) Charlotte's abdomen.
(b) A cut in Sibyl's hand.
(c) Charlotte's nostrils.
(d) Charlotte's vaginal area.

3. What did the coroner testify that Sibyl had done?
(a) A poor job of stitching Charlotte's abdomen, but a poor job of stitching her uterus.
(b) A good job of stitching Charlotte's abdomen.
(c) A poor job of stitching Charlotte's abdomen.
(d) A good job of stitching Charlotte's uterus and abdomen.

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

5. When Sibyl is arrested, what misdemeanor charge is brought against her?
(a) Practicing medicine without a license.
(b) Purjury.
(c) Negligence.
(d) Dispensing pharmaceuticals without a license.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Anne object to Sibyl doing for Charlotte?

3. What did the jury do during Anne's testimony that made Connie uneasy?

4. What did the state's first witness describe for the jury?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Tanner depict Charlotte as a frail woman?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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