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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 Tanner say Sibyl forced Charlotte to do?
(a) Take the wrong medication.
(b) Hire her.
(c) Push too long.
(d) Send Asa from the room.

2. What did Tanner say Sibyl should have known because she was a lifelong resident of Vermont?
(a) That she would be accused of murder.
(b) A storm was coming.
(c) The phone number for the hospital.
(d) That home births are dangerous.

3. Who testified that her personal belief was that home births are dangerous?
(a) Anne.
(b) Charlotte's mother.
(c) A nurse-midwife.
(d) The state trooper.

4. What did Hastings say Anne failed to do?
(a) Tell the truth on the stand.
(b) Appropriately assist Sibyl.
(c) Call the police.
(d) Stop Sibyl from performing the C-section.

5. 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 poor job of stitching Charlotte's abdomen.
(c) A good job of stitching Charlotte's abdomen.
(d) A good job of stitching Charlotte's uterus and abdomen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What charge was brought against Sibyl?

2. What did the male past-patient that Tanner put on the stand say in his testimony?

3. What charge did Hastings warn the Danforth's the state could charge Sibyl with?

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

5. What was Sibyl instructed not to do as part of her bail agreement?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the term "vagaled" mean?

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

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