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

2. In her closing argument, what does Ellie say Katie is so intent on?
(a) Confessing her sins.
(b) Lying to the jury.
(c) Telling the truth.
(d) Denying that she killed her baby.

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

4. Where does Adam ask Ellie and Coop to go?
(a) Back to the farm.
(b) To State College to see Jacob.
(c) The baby's grave.
(d) To the elders.

5. Who makes overtures at Katie?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Coop.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who got upset on the stand during the trial?

2. How many years in prison did the plea bargain include?

3. What does the prosecution psychiatrist think Katie suffers from?

4. What does Samuel speak about on the stand?

5. Who ends the relationship between Ellie and Stephen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do Katie's lies feel like betrayal to Ellie?

3. In Chapter 9, what does the friend who visits Katie a few days after the girl had a date with Samuel, say to Katie?

4. What does Katie say about the baby's death when she takes the stand?

5. What happened when Ellie returned to the Fisher farm the first night of trial?

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

7. In Chapter 10, why wasn't Katie comfortable with the insanity defense?

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

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

10. Why did the pathologist's testimony send the prosecutor into a tailspin?

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