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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. Where does Adam ask Ellie and Coop to go?
(a) To State College to see Jacob.
(b) Back to the farm.
(c) To the elders.
(d) The baby's grave.

2. When Ellie puts Katie back on the stand, how does Katie say the baby died?
(a) By ignoring the baby.
(b) By letting God take the baby after it was born.
(c) By leaving the baby in the barn.
(d) By having a disease that caused her baby's death.

3. What causes an uproar in the courtroom?
(a) When Ellie claims Katie is insane.
(b) When Katie confesses to killing the baby.
(c) When the prosecution asks their first question of Katie.
(d) When Katie says she is in love with two men.

4. What does Katie insist that Ellie ask the judge?
(a) If Katie can skip the trial to stay home and do farm work.
(b) If they can go home for afternoon milking.
(c) If she can leave early to help till the fields.
(d) If they can start later tomorrow to allow time for the morning milking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ellie practice her opening remarks for?

2. When Ellie cross examines Lizzie, what does she argue about the footprint found near the baby's body?

3. What does Katie have to walk through on her way into the courthouse?

4. What does Katie announce at the end of Chapter 13?

5. Whose car does Katie jump out of on the way home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ellie believe she can trust Coop in Chapter 16?

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

3. What is Lizzie convincing the district attorney of in Chapter 9?

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

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

6. After the pathologist's testimony, what did Katie do on the way home to the farm?

7. What is Sarah's reaction on the morning of the trial's opening?

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

9. What do the prosecutor and Ellie say in their closing arguments?

10. What was the punishment Katie received from the elders of the church?

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