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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 did Connie see when she dropped off Charlotte's medical records at Hastings' office?

2. What did Anne's testimony cause the jury to do?

3. Who did the state call as their first witness?

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

5. What condition(s) had Charlotte neglected to mention to Sibyl?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Sibyl sew up Charlotte's abdomen after the baby was delivered?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How is foreshadowing used in Midwives? What purpose does the use of foreshadowing serve?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Connie react to Sibyl and Hastings' relationship in the way she did? Is her view of the relationship reliable? Why or why not?

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