NET English Paper 3 Sept 2013 Q.16

16. Stand up, young woman … and tell me what sort of a barbarous people your country folk are, where child-murder is become so commonplace as to require the restraint of laws like yours.’ The queen in Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian is referring to a strangeScottish law according to which if a woman

1. gives birth to a child and the child is missing, she is considered guilty of infanticide.
2. Secretly gives birth to a child and the child is missing and she has not confided to anyone about her pregnancy, she is considered guilty of infanticide.
3. gives birth to a child and the child is missing and she has not confided to anyone about her pregnancy, she is considered guilty of infanticide.
4. gives birth to a child and kills the child and she is guilty of infanticide.

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