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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 opposed Sibyl and Rand's decision regarding Connie in Chapter 14?
(a) Hastings.
(b) Connie's grandmother.
(c) The principal.
(d) Connie.

2. What did Tanner say Sibyl should have known because she was a lifelong resident of Vermont?
(a) That she would be accused of murder.
(b) That home births are dangerous.
(c) The phone number for the hospital.
(d) A storm was coming.

3. What kind of student was Anne Austin described as?
(a) Good, but timid.
(b) Quiet and withdrawn.
(c) Poor.
(d) Enthusiastic.

4. What did Hastings get the nurse-midwife who testified to admit in his cross-examination of her?
(a) People in her own profession often delivered babies at home.
(b) Charlotte was a good candidate for home birth.
(c) Sibyl was an excellent midwife.
(d) She was lying.

5. During what month did the Danforth's wait to learn what the charges against Sibyl would be?
(a) August.
(b) May.
(c) July.
(d) April.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Connie notice about Hastings and Sibyl as the trial was about to begin?

2. What was the group on the courthouse steps doing when the Danforths arrived?

3. Which entries in Sibyl's notebook did Connie read?

4. When Sibyl is arrested, what misdemeanor charge is brought against her?

5. What did Connie discover her father was doing before the trial began?

Short Essay Questions

1. What realization did Connie come to while she was watching the goings on in the court during the jury selection?

2. Why did Tanner say that Sibyl should have called an ambulance toward the beginning of the delivery?

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

4. What was unusual about Hastings' delivery of the manslaughter charges to Sibyl?

5. What does the term "vagaled" mean?

6. Why did many of Sibyl's clients attend the trial with their infants?

7. Why did Sibyl sew up Charlotte's abdomen after the baby was delivered?

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

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

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

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