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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. After going out to warm up her car, what did Sibyl discover when she returned to Charlotte's room?

2. What is the name of Sibyl's attorney?

3. What did the men at the party do when Sibyl's friend went into labor?

4. What was the charge against Sibyl?

5. What was the name of the midwife who began hanging around the Danforth home during Sibyl's difficult time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the hippie movement, of which Sibyl became a part, influence her decision to become a midwife?

2. How did Stephen Hastings describe Charlotte's death?

3. How did Sibyl's first experience with childbirth influence her decision to become a midwife?

4. Why did Sibyl ask Asa to bring her a sharp knife?

5. What caused Sibyl to believe it might have finally been time to take Charlotte to the hospital?

6. Why was Connie upset when she saw Stephen Hastings joking with the prosecutor and judge?

7. Why was Anne's claim that Charlotte bled in an arch when Sibyl cut into her significant?

8. How did Rand feel about Sibyl's profession and why did he feel that way?

9. What was Sibyl's first experience with childbirth?

10. Why did Connie spend a lot of her time riding her best friend's horse?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Rand affected by Sibyl's relationship? What impact does it have on him as a father? As a husband? As a person?

Essay Topic 2

Why did Connie react to Sibyl and Hastings' relationship in the way she did? Is her view of the relationship reliable? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

What evidence is there that Connie's relationship with her mother changes as the story progresses? Why does the relationship change? What is the state of Connie's relationship with her mother before Sibyl's death?

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