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

2. What was the profession of the person who testified that Charlotte's medical history should have prevented her from participating in a home birth?
(a) Midwife.
(b) Medical examiner.
(c) Nurse-midwife.
(d) Midwife turned Ob-Gyn.

3. What did Tanner say about home births in his opening remarks?
(a) They are dangerous.
(b) They should be outlawed.
(c) Most go well.
(d) Charlotte's was a rare case.

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

5. What did Connie initially think the investigator Hastings hired was?
(a) A photographer.
(b) A reporter.
(c) A psychiatrist.
(d) A doctor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was given the first chance to speak in Sibyl's trial?

3. What did the autopsy report reveal was the cause of Charlotte's death?

4. What did Connie see on her mother's desk after returning home late one night?

5. Who was on the courthouse steps when the Danforths arrived for the trial?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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