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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Ellie miss the interview at the law firm?
(a) She lost track of time.
(b) Her car broke down.
(c) She was in the hospital.
(d) She decided not to go.

3. 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's ghost floating over the water in the night sky.
(b) Her sister ghost skating over the pond.
(c) The pond in the darkness.
(d) Jacob.

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

6. Why didn't Ellie want to marry Coop?
(a) She was afraid of that kind of committment at such a young age.
(b) She was afraid of having children.
(c) She wasn't sure Coop was the right one for her.
(d) She had to move away for her job.

7. Why is Ellie frustrated by Katie's continued denials that she has given birth or injured the baby?
(a) Because of the medical and physical evidence against it.
(b) Because Ellie thinks Katie knows and is lying.
(c) Because Ellie is convinced she is guilty.
(d) Because Ellie is concerned Katie is not allowing herself to grieve.

8. 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 no one in the Amish community will talk about the baby.
(d) Because Katie continues to deny having the baby.

9. What does Katie think when Ellie explains the English judicial system to her?
(a) Katie doesn't understand why the English are reacting the way they are about the incident.
(b) Katie doesn't understand why she shouldn't just be allowed to tell the truth and receive a fitting punishment.
(c) Katie doesn't understand the complexity of the system.
(d) Katie doesn't understand why she can't defend herself.

10. Who does Lizzie Munro not interview?
(a) Aaron Fisher.
(b) Levi.
(c) Mr. Fisher.
(d) The farmhands.

11. In Part One, Chapter 5, why does Katie wake at night and cry out in pain?
(a) Because she had a nightmare about her trial.
(b) Because her breasts are swollen with milk.
(c) Because she feels herself having contractions.
(d) Because she feels the emotional loss of her baby.

12. Why did the doctors send Katie to the emergency room?
(a) To stop the bleeding.
(b) To remove a brain tumor.
(c) To remove her spleen.
(d) To remove a baby.

13. What does Ellie do when she returns home from walking around the Fisher property in the evening?
(a) Goes to her room to make notes for Katie's defense.
(b) Helps with the evening farm chores.
(c) Helps prepare dinner.
(d) Sits and talks with Katie's parents.

14. What does Stephen state on the phone is the reason Ellie moved to the Fisher farm?
(a) To move away from him.
(b) To get him to think she was a soft-hearted woman.
(c) To get his attention.
(d) To get him to propose to her.

15. What happens when Katie is getting ready to leave the hospital and go home?
(a) Leda arrives to take Katie home.
(b) Katie's sister arrives.
(c) Katie cries and decides not to leave home.
(d) Katie is arrested.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why wouldn't Sarah supervise her daughter, Katie, so that Katie could be released pending trial?

2. What do the bishop and the church leaders want Katie to do at the next church meeting?

3. When Ellie thinks about having to formulate Katie's defense, what is she frustrated at?

4. Of what did Lizzie convince the doctor in the emergency room so she could learn about Katie's condition?

5. What saddens Samuel on the way home from the party?

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