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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. Where was the arch of blood supposed to have been coming from?
(a) Charlotte's abdomen.
(b) Charlotte's nostrils.
(c) A cut in Sibyl's hand.
(d) Charlotte's vaginal area.

2. In Chapter 14, what did Sibyl and Rand decide to allow Connie to do?
(a) Date.
(b) Attend school rather than the trial.
(c) Go to her grandmother's for the duration of the trial.
(d) Attend the trial.

3. What did Tanner say Sibyl should have known because she was a lifelong resident of Vermont?
(a) A storm was coming.
(b) That home births are dangerous.
(c) That she would be accused of murder.
(d) The phone number for the hospital.

4. 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 made his wife push too long.
(c) Sibyl had misled him and his wife about the safety of home birth.
(d) Sibyl had not treated his wife's anemia.

5. What did the jury do during Anne's testimony that made Connie uneasy?
(a) Take notes.
(b) Stare at Connie.
(c) Steal uncomfortable glances at Sibyl.
(d) Stop looking at Sibyl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hastings say, in his opening remarks, Sibyl was able to do on the day of Charlotte's death?

2. What did the female past-patient that Tanner put on the stand say in her testimony?

3. What is the name of the investigator Stephen Hastings hired?

4. How did Connie enter the house on the night she came home late in Chapter 17?

5. What charge did Hastings hope for after it was determined that Sibyl would be charged?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was unusual about Hastings' delivery of the manslaughter charges to Sibyl?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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