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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. In Chapter 14, what did Sibyl and Rand decide to allow Connie to do?

2. What charge was brought against Sibyl?

3. What did the midwife turned Ob-Gyn say Sibyl had successfully treated for Charlotte during her pregnancy?

4. What did the state's first witness describe for the jury?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did many of Sibyl's clients attend the trial with their infants?

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

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

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 was Hastings' cross-examination of the midwife turned Ob-Gyn important?

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

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

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

10. What was significant about the manner in which Sibyl stitched Charlotte's body?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What evidence is there that Connie's relationship with her mother changes as the story progresses? Why does the relationship change? What is the state of Connie's relationship with her mother before Sibyl's death?

Essay Topic 2

What is Hastings' defense of Sibyl like? What tactics does he use? Which methods seem effective, and which do not? Why did Connie have such a strong reaction to the word "vagal"? How was it important in Sibyl's trial?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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