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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. Who did the Danforths learn would be attending the trial in support of Sibyl?
2. What is the name of the investigator Stephen Hastings hired?
3. What did Hastings say, in his opening remarks, Sibyl was able to do on the day of Charlotte's death?
4. What alternative possibility did Hastings offer Sibyl in Chapter 12?
5. In Chapter 12, how many years in prison does Connie say Sibyl could have been sentenced to?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was significant about the manner in which Sibyl stitched Charlotte's body?
2. Why did many of Sibyl's clients attend the trial with their infants?
3. Why was it important for the prosecution to make the point that Anne was an enthusiastic student who did not believe in interfering with birth unless absolutely necessary?
4. Why was the medical examiner's testimony particularly harmful to Sibyl's defense?
5. Why did Sibyl sew up Charlotte's abdomen after the baby was delivered?
6. Why did Sibyl and Rand allow Connie to attend the trial?
7. Why did Connie continue to read other entries in Sibyl's journal after reading the one she found the notebook opened to?
8. Why was Hastings' winning of a motion to review Charlotte's medical records important?
9. Why did Hastings say that Asa could not possibly have seen the blood arch coming from Charlotte's abdomen?
10. Why did Tanner depict Charlotte as a frail woman?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is Hastings' relationship with Sibyl like? What does he do that reveals he has stronger feelings for Sibyl? Why are his feelings toward Sibyl important? How do they affect the plot?
Essay Topic 2
Why does Sibyl choose to refuse any settlement agreements? What does this reveal about her? How does her decision affect Connie?
Essay Topic 3
What does Sibyl's repair of the wound in Charlotte's body reveal about her? Why is it important in her trial? Why does the author place it where he does in the novel?
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