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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 female past-patient that Tanner put on the stand say in her testimony?
(a) She had fired Sibyl.
(b) Sibyl had forced her to push too long.
(c) Sibyl had prescribed the wrong medicine.
(d) She had her baby C-section in the hospital.

2. 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.

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

4. What is the name of the investigator Stephen Hastings hired?
(a) Tom Corts.
(b) Bill Tanner.
(c) Patty Dunlevy.
(d) Asa Bedford.

5. 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) That home births are dangerous.
(c) The phone number for the hospital.
(d) A storm was coming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who testified that her personal belief was that home births are dangerous?

2. What month did Sibyl's trial begin?

3. What was happening outside during the opening remarks?

4. How did Tanner describe Charlotte in his opening statement?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. Why did Hastings want a jury full of older women?

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

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

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

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

9. Why did the prosecutor put the state trooper on the stand to testify?

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

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