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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the weather like during Charlotte's labor?

2. What is the name of the Bedfords' son?

3. What did Connie do the Saturday after Charlotte's death?

4. How did Charlotte's labor progress?

5. Why was Connie with her mother when Connie saw her first childbirth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Sibyl agree to give the police officer who came to the Danforth home a statement without a lawyer present?

2. How did Stephen Hastings describe Charlotte's death?

3. How did Rand feel about Sibyl's profession and why did he feel that way?

4. Why did Connie spend a lot of her time riding her best friend's horse?

5. What is the difference between Connie's profession and her mother's?

6. How did Asa react to Sibyl's decision to perform a C-section?

7. What caused Sibyl to believe it might have finally been time to take Charlotte to the hospital?

8. What events occurred that prevented Sibyl from getting Charlotte the medical help she needed?

9. Why did Sibyl ask Asa to bring her a sharp knife?

10. What did Sibyl expect from Charlotte's birth experience when she first got there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why would Connie, who had clearly lost some trust in her mother, choose to remove the damning journal entries to keep her mother from being convicted? What does this choice say about Connie? What does it say about her relationship with Sibyl?

Essay Topic 2

Why does the state's case seem to be driven by prejudice in the medical community? What evidence of this prejudice is there? How does Sibyl feel about the medical community? Are her feelings justified?

Essay Topic 3

How is the motif of childbirth portrayed in Midwives? Which characters are comfortable with childbirth? Which characters are not? Do any of the characters change in their views toward childbirth by the end of the novel?

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