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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 the jury do during Anne's testimony that made Connie uneasy?
(a) Take notes.
(b) Stop looking at Sibyl.
(c) Steal uncomfortable glances at Sibyl.
(d) Stare at Connie.

2. What did the medical examiner say he believed happened during Charlotte's labor?
(a) She simply fainted.
(b) She had a heart attack.
(c) She vagaled.
(d) She had a stroke.

3. What did Tanner say Sibyl should have done before there was a medical emergency?
(a) Bring the doctor to the delivery.
(b) Give Charlotte medication.
(c) Send Asa for the doctor.
(d) Call an ambulance.

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

5. What did Anne's testimony cause the jury to do?
(a) Forget that Charlotte had a family.
(b) Dismiss the case.
(c) See Charlotte as a real person.
(d) Weep openly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the medical examiner say was Charlotte's cause of death?

2. What did Hastings say about home births in his opening statement?

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

4. During his opening remarks, what did Hastings use to compare home births to hospital births.

5. Who did the Danforths learn would be attending the trial in support of Sibyl?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Sibyl and Rand allow Connie to attend the trial?

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

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

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

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

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

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