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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. Who was given the first chance to speak in Sibyl's trial?
(a) Stephen Hastings.
(b) Asa Bedford.
(c) Sibyl Danforth.
(d) Bill Tanner.

2. What does Connie think of the investigator Hastings hired?
(a) She was suspicious.
(b) She was sweet, but not very bright.
(c) She was wild and exciting.
(d) She was irritating and dull.

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

4. What did Connie see when she dropped off Charlotte's medical records at Hastings' office?
(a) Notes about Sibyl's trial.
(b) Hastings and Sibyl kissing.
(c) Hastings joking with the prosecutor.
(d) A bill for his legal services.

5. As Sibyl's student, what did Anne believe about home births?
(a) A doctor should be present.
(b) Interference is usually necessary.
(c) There should be as little interference as possible.
(d) Patients should be given painkillers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Sibyl try to do after delivering Charlotte's baby?

3. What did Anne object to Sibyl doing for Charlotte?

4. Stephen Hastings brought in experts on what two things before Sibyl had been charged?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the term "vagaled" mean?

7. 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?

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

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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