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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ellie decide she must mount an insanity plea?
(a) Because Katie believes Samuel is the devil.
(b) Because Katie continues to deny having the baby.
(c) Because Katie screams out in her dreams about killing the baby.
(d) Because no one in the Amish community will talk about the baby.

2. When Katie and Jacob went to the pond the first anniversary of their sister's death, what did Katie see for the first time?
(a) Her sister ghost skating over the pond.
(b) Her sister's ghost floating over the water in the night sky.
(c) Jacob.
(d) The pond in the darkness.

3. Where did Ellie find Sarah the morning of the trial?
(a) Crying alone in the kitchen.
(b) Crying in secret in the barn.
(c) Crying alone in her bedroom.
(d) Doing farmwork while she tried not to cry.

4. When the reporters show up the first night at the family home, what does Katie's father do?
(a) Stands stoically before the cameras to protect his family.
(b) Threatens the reporters if they don't leave his property.
(c) Says nothing, but shelters the family inside the house.
(d) Fires a shotgun at the reporters.

5. What does Katie have to walk through on her way into the courthouse?
(a) No one is at the courthouse.
(b) The Amish community.
(c) The press.
(d) The English public.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Jacob been hiding from Katie?

2. At the pretrial hearing, Ellie argues for who to be kept out of the trial?

3. Where does Ellie take Katie when Katie gets into the courthouse?

4. Where was Jacob when Katie visited him?

5. What was Katie fighting the doctors about doing at the hospital?

(see the answer key)

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