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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 was on the courthouse steps when the Danforths arrived for the trial?
(a) Other midwives.
(b) No one.
(c) Connie's classmates.
(d) The Bedfords.

2. What did Anne do at the end of her testimony?
(a) Stated Sibyl did not kill Charlotte.
(b) Became very calm.
(c) Refused to answer any more questions.
(d) Accused Sibyl of murder.

3. Who did the state call as their first witness?
(a) Anne.
(b) Sibyl.
(c) A state trooper.
(d) The medical examiner.

4. Which entries in Sibyl's notebook did Connie read?
(a) All those from Charlotte's death forward.
(b) All those from Charlotte's death back.
(c) Only the date on which Charlotte died.
(d) Only the last three entries.

5. What did Hastings say, in his opening remarks, Sibyl was able to do on the day of Charlotte's death?
(a) Comfort Charlotte's grieving family.
(b) Make home births against the law.
(c) Save Charlotte's infant son.
(d) Sew perfect sutures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who joined Connie for lunch on the opening day of the trial?

2. Who admitted during cross-examination that Sibyl did not know about Charlotte's medical history?

3. What did Tanner say Sibyl should have done before there was a medical emergency?

4. What did Anne's testimony cause the jury to do?

5. What did Anne object to Sibyl doing for Charlotte?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Hastings' winning of a motion to review Charlotte's medical records important?

2. Why did Hastings say that Asa could not possibly have seen the blood arch coming from Charlotte's abdomen?

3. Why did Tanner depict Charlotte as a frail woman?

4. Why did Hastings involve blood evidence and home birth experts before Sibyl was even charged?

5. What did Hastings say about home births to make his point about their safety relative to hospital births?

6. Why did the prosecutor put the state trooper on the stand to testify?

7. Why did Connie seem concerned about the relationship between Sibyl and Hastings?

8. Why did Hastings want a jury full of older women?

9. How did Anne's testimony make the jury begin to see Charlotte as a real person?

10. Why was Hastings' cross-examination of the midwife turned Ob-Gyn important?

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