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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes an uproar in the courtroom?
(a) When Katie says she is in love with two men.
(b) When Ellie claims Katie is insane.
(c) When Katie confesses to killing the baby.
(d) When the prosecution asks their first question of Katie.

2. How does the medical examiner believe the baby was murdered?
(a) By suffocation.
(b) By being shot.
(c) By being kicked by a cow.
(d) By knife wound.

3. What can Katie not be at the trial?
(a) Unemotional.
(b) Confused.
(c) Dishonest.
(d) Truthful.

4. When the state appointed psychiatrist talks with Katie, what does Katie remember besides her pregnancy?
(a) The actual birth.
(b) Killing the baby.
(c) Disposing of the baby.
(d) Nothing.

5. What does Ellie convince the judge to do?
(a) Drop the murder charge against Katie.
(b) Allow Ellie to change her defense.
(c) Postpone the trial for 2 more months.
(d) Move the trial to a different city.

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

7. For how many years has Katie been visiting Jacob at school?
(a) Five.
(b) Eight.
(c) Six.
(d) Seven.

8. When Adam is on the stand, what does the prosecutor make light of?
(a) Adam's profession.
(b) The baby.
(c) Adam's love for Katie.
(d) Adam's friendship with Jacob.

9. Where does Ellie take Katie to visit while she decides on the plea bargain?
(a) Ellie's house.
(b) Jacob, at school.
(c) The jail.
(d) Leda's house.

10. What does the psychiatrist agree with Coop about?
(a) Katie will not stand up well at trial.
(b) Katie doesn't remember the birth of her baby.
(c) Katie is not remorseful for the death of her baby.
(d) Katie suffers from a dissociative state.

11. Who is the father of Ellie's baby?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Michael.
(c) Coop.
(d) Stephen.

12. Who was at the Fisher house when Ellie returned to the house after working in the field as harvest time arrives?
(a) Coop.
(b) Jacob.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Leda.

13. Who was working in the fields with the Fishers as harvest time arrived?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Coop.
(c) Ellie.
(d) Leda.

14. What was the prosecution's first question?
(a) If Katie could tell the jury the events of that night.
(b) If Katie knew what she was on trial for.
(c) If Katie killed the baby.
(d) If Katie knew the baby was dead.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Katie stop on the way home?

2. What happens when the prosecutor cross-examines Samuel?

3. What does Katie tell Ellie happened at a party while visiting Jacob?

4. How does Katie get the rest of the way home after she jumps out of the car?

5. What does Katie do at the baby's grave?

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