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

2. What did the male past-patient that Tanner put on the stand say in his testimony?
(a) Sibyl was honest about the safety of home birth.
(b) Sibyl had not treated his wife's anemia.
(c) Sibyl had misled him and his wife about the safety of home birth.
(d) Sibyl had made his wife push too long.

3. During his opening remarks, what did Hastings use to compare home births to hospital births.
(a) Charlotte's medical records.
(b) Newspaper articles.
(c) Only the hospital statistics.
(d) Hospital statistics and Sibyl's statistics.

4. Who joined Connie for lunch on the opening day of the trial?
(a) Tom.
(b) Her best friend.
(c) Foogie.
(d) Hastings.

5. What alternative possibility did Hastings offer Sibyl in Chapter 12?
(a) A monetary fine.
(b) Settlement.
(c) A plea-bargain.
(d) Fleeing the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the medical examiner say he believed happened during Charlotte's labor?

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

3. Who admitted during cross-examination that Sibyl did not know about Charlotte's medical history?

4. What did Anne's testimony cause the jury to do?

5. What did Connie see when she dropped off Charlotte's medical records at Hastings' office?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. Why did Sibyl sew up Charlotte's abdomen after the baby was delivered?

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

7. Why was the medical examiner's testimony particularly harmful to Sibyl's defense?

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

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

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

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