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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. During what month did the Danforth's wait to learn what the charges against Sibyl would be?

2. How did Hastings gain access to Charlotte's medical records?

3. What did Tanner say about home births in his opening remarks?

4. What reason did Stephen give for Asa's inability to see an arch of blood?

5. What kind of student was Anne Austin described as?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why would Connie, who had clearly lost some trust in her mother, choose to remove the damning journal entries to keep her mother from being convicted? What does this choice say about Connie? What does it say about her relationship with Sibyl?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Why does Charlotte's death have such a profound effect on Sibyl? How is her position as a midwife significant in her reaction? How might her reaction have been different if she were a doctor?

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