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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What virtue is not part of the Amish way?
(a) Having a baby.
(b) Being with a non-Amish man.
(c) Lying to friends.
(d) Lying to family.

2. What happens when the prosecutor cross-examines Samuel?
(a) He stands his ground.
(b) He withdraws and is sullen.
(c) He professes his love for Katie.
(d) He breaks down and cries.

3. What does the prosecution psychiatrist think Katie suffers from?
(a) Remorse.
(b) Traumatic stress disorder.
(c) Teenage selfishness.
(d) A dissociative state.

4. Where does no one seem interested in the trial?
(a) At the Fisher farm.
(b) At the weekly church gathering.
(c) In State College, where Jacob lives.
(d) In the English community.

5. What does Katie do before the elders of the church?
(a) Tells them she blames them for her baby.
(b) Tells them God loves her and took her baby.
(c) Kneels and confesses.
(d) Kneels and prays for her baby.

6. Besides tending to the fields, what did Samuel do over the few weeks after the harvest time arrived?
(a) Talked with Jacob about life away from the community.
(b) Built a neighbor's barn.
(c) Stayed with Katie for comfort.
(d) Built furniture for Aaron.

7. What does Samuel speak about on the stand?
(a) The Amish way of life and his plans for the future.
(b) Katie's character and the Amish way of life.
(c) The Amish way of life and dating.
(d) Katie's character and his relationship with Katie.

8. Katie tells the prosecution that she killed the baby but refuses to say what?
(a) How she did it.
(b) When it happened.
(c) If anyone else was with her.
(d) Where it happened.

9. What does Ellie invite Stephen to do at the Fischer's?
(a) Stay for dinner.
(b) Stay for lunch.
(c) Watch the trial.
(d) Be Ellie's co-counsel.

10. Who testified that Katie often visited her brother at school?
(a) Lizzie.
(b) Samuel.
(c) The prosecution psychiatrist.
(d) Ellie.

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

12. Who is the first witness on the stand at Katie's trial?
(a) The psychiatrist.
(b) Lizzie.
(c) The pathologist.
(d) The emergency room doctor.

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

14. What infection did the pathologist believe Katie had contracted?
(a) Listeria.
(b) Lupus.
(c) Viral.
(d) Measels.

15. After Jacob comes home, what or who is Katie growing increasingly unhappy with?
(a) The English legal system.
(b) Jacob.
(c) Her parents
(d) The idea of an insanity defense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurred at the hearing in the judge's office?

2. What happens to Coop's testimony at the beginning?

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

4. Who was working in the fields with the Fishers as harvest time arrived?

5. What has Jacob been hiding from Katie?

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