View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Danforth family react to the release of the autopsy report?

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

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

4. What did Connie notice about Hastings and Sibyl as the trial was about to begin?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the term "vagaled" mean?

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Tanner say that Sibyl should have called an ambulance toward the beginning of the delivery?

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

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

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

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

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

How are the other midwives affected by Sibyl's trial? How did they react? What did they stand to lose if Sibyl was convicted?

Essay Topic 3

What point-of-view is the story told in? Why did the author choose this point-of-view? Is the use of this point-of-view successful or might another have worked better? Why or why not?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 758 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample