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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who decides to act as counsel for Katie?
(a) Ellie.
(b) Fisher.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Leda.

3. What is Levi looking for when he finds the baby?
(a) A lamp.
(b) A pitchfork.
(c) A change of clothes.
(d) Breakfast.

4. What does the party reveal about some members of the Amish community?
(a) That they think Katie is guilty.
(b) That they don't believe the baby is Katie's.
(c) That they don't believe there was a baby.
(d) That they don't speak English.

5. Where did Katie go in the middle of the night the first night Ellie was at her house?
(a) Down to the pond.
(b) Next door to the neighbor's farm.
(c) To the family barn.
(d) Across the fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ellie decide she must mount an insanity plea?

2. Why does Katie stay up all night?

3. What died once placed in Katie's care?

4. Who does Samuel admit to loving?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what is the reason that the author says Katie's father considers Jacob dead?

2. In Chapter 1, why does Ellie Hathaway take Katie's case?

3. In Chapter 1, when does Lizzie begin to question Katie and what does she question?

4. What does Lizzie Munor believe happened when she is called to the farm in Chapter 1?

5. What happened on Sunday night in Chapter 5 that reminded Ellie that Katie was still lying about not having a baby and what did it make Ellie wonder?

6. In Chapter 6, why does Katie agree to confess her sins at the next church meeting as the bishop and church leaders have asked her to do?

7. What is a dissociative state and when can it occur?

8. In Chapters 2-3, the author mentioned that when Katie went to visit Jacob six years ago in State College, Jacob give her a gift. What was this gift?

9. What does Katie talk to Coop about in Chapter 8?

10. What is the first step Ellie takes in an attempt to win over the Amish community?

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