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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. What does Katie do before the elders of the church?
(a) Kneels and prays for her baby.
(b) Tells them she blames them for her baby.
(c) Kneels and confesses.
(d) Tells them God loves her and took her baby.

2. What does Katie have to walk through on her way into the courthouse?
(a) The Amish community.
(b) No one is at the courthouse.
(c) The press.
(d) The English public.

3. What happens on the way out of the courthouse?
(a) The prosecution is the one one to declare victory.
(b) The media asks Katie questions and Katie runs away.
(c) Both sides declare they won.
(d) Ellie is the only one to declare victory.

4. Where did Ellie find Sarah the morning of the trial?
(a) Doing farmwork while she tried not to cry.
(b) Crying in secret in the barn.
(c) Crying alone in her bedroom.
(d) Crying alone in the kitchen.

5. Who does Ellie practice her opening remarks for?
(a) Katie.
(b) Stephen.
(c) Coop.
(d) Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Katie tell Ellie happened at a party while visiting Jacob?

2. How does Ellie know she is pregnant?

3. When Ellie puts Katie back on the stand, how does Katie say the baby died?

4. What infection does the pathologist discuss when he is on the stand?

5. In her closing argument, what does Ellie say Katie is so intent on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the pathologist's testimony send the prosecutor into a tailspin?

2. What does Katie's reaction to Adam in the courtroom suggest to the jury?

3. Why is Ellie nervous about telling Coop about her pregnancy?

4. What does Katie admit to Ellie at the end of Chapter 16?

5. When the prosecution questions Jacob, what is the prosecution able to suggest about Katie?

6. In Chapter 10, when Stephen arrives at the Fisher farm, what does Ellie tell him after dinner?

7. In Chapter 9, what does the friend who visits Katie a few days after the girl had a date with Samuel, say to Katie?

8. In Chapter 10, when Jacob returns to the farm again, what does he say and what is his father's response?

9. What does Katie say about the baby's death when she takes the stand?

10. What do Katie and Ellie agree on about Katie's defense in Chapter 10?

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