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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ellie surprised to find the Fisher home filled with, despite the lack of electricity?
(a) A refrigerator.
(b) Lamps.
(c) Modern furniture.
(d) Modern conveniences.

2. What does Ellie feel guilty about bringing into the barn?
(a) A telephone line.
(b) An inverter.
(c) A desktop computer.
(d) A lamp.

3. What is a good sign that members of the community will be willing to help Ellie?
(a) When the Fisher family takes her to church.
(b) When the Fisher family allows her to stay in their home.
(c) When the bishop stands up for her.
(d) When Katie starts talking to her.

4. What do Ellie and Katie do after services, when Aaron and Sarah go to visit friends?
(a) Go home and do work on the family farm.
(b) Go home and cook.
(c) Go into town and talk at a local coffee shop.
(d) Take a walk by the pond.

5. What does Katie say is the "Amish way?"
(a) To stay with your family in troubled times.
(b) To avoid contact with anyone in the community until you are "righted."
(c) To stay silent near the elders unless they ask you to speak.
(d) To confess, even if she didn't do anything.

6. What does Katie do at the cemetery?
(a) She flees the cemetery.
(b) She clings to Ellie and cries.
(c) She clings to her mother.
(d) She falls to her knees and cries.

7. Where was Jacob when Katie visited him?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) New York.
(d) State College.

8. What did Katie join when she became a teenager?
(a) A school group.
(b) An Amish dating group.
(c) An Amish gang.
(d) A quilting group.

9. Why does Katie stay up all night?
(a) She is hoping Samuel will come courting in the middle of the night.
(b) She is hoping Jacob comes home.
(c) She is hoping the whole situation is a bad dream.
(d) She is sleepless with thoughts of her baby.

10. Who was Katie talking to in the middle of the night when she left the house?
(a) Her dead brother.
(b) Her dead sister.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her grandfather.

11. What test does Katie pass on the first try?
(a) A test on the legal system.
(b) A test on Amish culture.
(c) A sobriety test.
(d) A lie detector test.

12. What does Katie give to the baby to suck on after he is born?
(a) A bottle.
(b) A pacifier.
(c) Her pinkie.
(d) Her thumb.

13. Who was less then accepting of Ellie's presence in Katie's home at the beginning?
(a) Katie's mother.
(b) Katie's father.
(c) Katie's sister.
(d) Katie's brother.

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

15. What was Levi helping Aaron Fisher with before he fell into a pile of manure?
(a) Milking the cows.
(b) Tilling the hay.
(c) Grooming the horses.
(d) Loading the hay cart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of defense is Ellie contemplating mounting for Katie at the end of Chapter 4?

2. Who agreed to accept responsibility and supervise Katie prior to trial?

3. Who summoned Katie out of bed in the middle of the night with a flashlight?

4. Why did the doctors send Katie to the emergency room?

5. Where was Jacob when Katie's sister drowned in the pond?

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