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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 word caught Connie's eye when she was in a conference room at Hastings' place of business?
2. What did the male past-patient that Tanner put on the stand say in his testimony?
3. Who admitted during cross-examination that Sibyl did not know about Charlotte's medical history?
4. What did Hastings get the nurse-midwife who testified to admit in his cross-examination of her?
5. What did Hastings say Anne failed to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Connie's reaction to seeing the word "vagal" written on a conference room board at Hastings' place of business?
2. Why did Hastings say that Asa could not possibly have seen the blood arch coming from Charlotte's abdomen?
3. Why did Sibyl and Rand allow Connie to attend the trial?
4. Why did Tanner depict Charlotte as a frail woman?
5. What realization did Connie come to while she was watching the goings on in the court during the jury selection?
6. Why did many of Sibyl's clients attend the trial with their infants?
7. Why did Hastings want a jury full of older women?
8. What did Hastings say about home births to make his point about their safety relative to hospital births?
9. Why did Connie continue to read other entries in Sibyl's journal after reading the one she found the notebook opened to?
10. Why did Connie seem concerned about the relationship between Sibyl and Hastings?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss symbolism in Midwives. What symbols are present in the novel? What does each stand for?
Essay Topic 2
What tone is set for the novel in the very first section of the book? What does the author do to set the tone? Does the book progress using the same tone throughout, or does it change at some point?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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