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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose car does Katie jump out of on the way home?
2. What is the prosecutor able to suggest to the jury through Jacob's testimony?
3. On the stand, how does Coop suggest the baby died?
4. What infection did the pathologist believe Katie had contracted?
5. What virtue is not part of the Amish way?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Sarah's reaction on the morning of the trial's opening?
2. What does Coop suggest when Ellie goes to him as a sounding board for a new defense strategy in Chapters 11-12?
3. What happened when Ellie returned to the Fisher farm the first night of trial?
4. Why did the pathologist's testimony send the prosecutor into a tailspin?
5. After the pathologist's testimony, what did Katie do on the way home to the farm?
6. In Chapter 9, what does the friend who visits Katie a few days after the girl had a date with Samuel, say to Katie?
7. What was the problem with Adam's profession?
8. What does Coop say to try to help Ellie after Katie signs a waiver saying that Ellie advised her against testifying?
9. Who was the first witness and what did the witness say?
10. When the prosecution questions Jacob, what is the prosecution able to suggest about Katie?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
There are at least two instances where a bann is brought up in Plain Truth. Discuss the role of the bann in the story, and why the author might have used it. Which characters were directly and indirectly affected by the bann? Why? What does this say about the affected characters?
Essay Topic 2
In Plain Truth, two of the protagonists are Katie and Ellie. Discuss how they are alike and how they are different. Are they opposites? Or is Ellie more like what Katie will be in twenty years?
Essay Topic 3
What were the influences in Ellie's actions in the book? Why was she drawn to Katie? What made her represent Katie at trial? What guided Ellie? What made her choose the things she did?
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