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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. Who eats dinner together in the city?
(a) Ellie and Stephen.
(b) Sarah and Aaron.
(c) Ellie and Coop.
(d) Ellie and Katie.

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

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

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

5. Who is the third witness on the stand at Katie's trial?
(a) Lizzie.
(b) The pathologist.
(c) The psychiatrist.
(d) The medical examiner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the prosecution's psychiatrist think Katie is faking?

2. What infection does the pathologist discuss when he is on the stand?

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

4. Who ends the relationship between Ellie and Stephen?

5. Katie tells the prosecution that she killed the baby but refuses to say what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the prosecutor and Ellie say in their opening arguments?

2. What does Katie's reaction to Adam in the courtroom suggest to the jury?

3. What does Katie reveal at the end of Chapter 13?

4. What is Lizzie convincing the district attorney of in Chapter 9?

5. What does Coop suggest when Ellie goes to him as a sounding board for a new defense strategy in Chapters 11-12?

6. What was the problem with Adam's profession?

7. Why is Ellie nervous about telling Coop about her pregnancy?

8. Why does Ellie believe she can trust Coop in Chapter 16?

9. Who was the first witness and what did the witness say?

10. After the pathologist's testimony, what did Katie do on the way home to the farm?

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