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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. In Chapter 14, what did Sibyl and Rand decide to allow Connie to do?
2. What did Tanner say Sibyl should have known because she was a lifelong resident of Vermont?
3. What alternative possibility did Hastings offer Sibyl in Chapter 12?
4. What did Connie notice about Hastings and Sibyl as the trial was about to begin?
5. When Sibyl is arrested, what misdemeanor charge is brought against her?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was unusual about Hastings' delivery of the manslaughter charges to Sibyl?
2. What was significant about the manner in which Sibyl stitched Charlotte's body?
3. Why did many of Sibyl's clients attend the trial with their infants?
4. Why did Tanner depict Charlotte as a frail woman?
5. How did Anne's testimony make the jury begin to see Charlotte as a real person?
6. Why did Tanner say that Sibyl should have called an ambulance toward the beginning of the delivery?
7. Why did the prosecutor put the state trooper on the stand to testify?
8. Why was Hastings' winning of a motion to review Charlotte's medical records important?
9. What was Connie's reaction to seeing the word "vagal" written on a conference room board at Hastings' place of business?
10. Why was the medical examiner's testimony particularly harmful to Sibyl's defense?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does Charlotte's death have such a profound effect on Sibyl? How is her position as a midwife significant in her reaction? How might her reaction have been different if she were a doctor?
Essay Topic 2
How is foreshadowing used in Midwives? What purpose does the use of foreshadowing serve?
Essay Topic 3
How is Rand affected by Sibyl's relationship? What impact does it have on him as a father? As a husband? As a person?
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