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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. What was the weather like during Charlotte's labor?

2. How old was Connie when Charlotte's family moved in?

3. What did Sibyl discover when she tried to make a call to the hospital during Charlotte's labor?

4. What time was Charlotte ready to begin pushing?

5. Why was Connie with her mother when Connie saw her first childbirth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why didn't anyone notice that there was an ice storm outside during Charlotte's labor?

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

3. What was Rand's reaction when Sibyl decided to provide the officer with a signed statement?

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

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

6. Why did Stephen Hastings bring a photographer to take pictures of Sibyl?

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

8. Why did other people find the words that Connie used as a child strange and uncomfortable?

9. What is the difference between Connie's profession and her mother's?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why would Connie, who had clearly lost some trust in her mother, choose to remove the damning journal entries to keep her mother from being convicted? What does this choice say about Connie? What does it say about her relationship with Sibyl?

Essay Topic 2

How is the motif of childbirth portrayed in Midwives? Which characters are comfortable with childbirth? Which characters are not? Do any of the characters change in their views toward childbirth by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Sibyl choose to refuse any settlement agreements? What does this reveal about her? How does her decision affect Connie?

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