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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 word caught Connie's eye when she was in a conference room at Hastings' place of business?
2. What did the medical examiner say he found in Charlotte's abdomen?
3. What did the autopsy report reveal was the cause of Charlotte's death?
4. How did Hastings gain access to Charlotte's medical records?
5. What did Tanner say Sibyl should have known because she was a lifelong resident of Vermont?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Tanner say that Sibyl should have called an ambulance toward the beginning of the delivery?
2. Why was Hastings' winning of a motion to review Charlotte's medical records important?
3. Why did Sibyl refuse to accept any possible settlements that might be offered?
4. Why did Connie's reading the journal show the reader that her relationship with Sibyl had changed?
5. What realization did Connie come to while she was watching the goings on in the court during the jury selection?
6. Why did Hastings say that Asa could not possibly have seen the blood arch coming from Charlotte's abdomen?
7. What does the term "vagaled" mean?
8. How did Anne's testimony make the jury begin to see Charlotte as a real person?
9. What was significant about the manner in which Sibyl stitched Charlotte's body?
10. What did Hastings say about home births to make his point about their safety relative to hospital births?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
How is foreshadowing used in Midwives? What purpose does the use of foreshadowing serve?
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