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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 was happening outside during the opening remarks?
(a) Storm clouds were approaching.
(b) It was a beautiful, sunny day.
(c) The midwives were causing a riot.
(d) People were marching with "Convict the Midwife" signs.

2. What did the medical examiner say he found in Charlotte's abdomen?
(a) A lot of blood.
(b) Another baby.
(c) A well-sutured uterus.
(d) A tumor.

3. What did the medical examiner say was Charlotte's cause of death?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) A stroke.
(c) Vagaling.
(d) The C-section.

4. What did Connie begin to realize Charlotte had as she watched the jury selection?
(a) A grudge against her mother.
(b) Wealthy parents.
(c) A family who loved her.
(d) No family to stick up for her.

5. How did Connie enter the house on the night she came home late in Chapter 17?
(a) The front door.
(b) The back door.
(c) Through her bedroom window.
(d) Through the window of her mother's office.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who joined Connie for lunch on the opening day of the trial?

2. What did Hastings get the nurse-midwife who testified to admit in his cross-examination of her?

3. What happened during the first few days in court?

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

5. During his opening remarks, what did Hastings use to compare home births to hospital births.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the term "vagaled" mean?

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