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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. In what year was Martha Ballard born?
(a) 1776
(b) 1735
(c) 1753
(d) 1800

2. What business did women handle during Martha's lifetime?
(a) Education work
(b) Editorial work
(c) Unseen community business
(d) Volunteer work

3. What is the state of Martha's accounts at this point?
(a) Healthy
(b) Broke
(c) Could be better
(d) Meager

4. What is the perception of midwives among women?
(a) Fear
(b) Love
(c) Mistrust
(d) Trust

5. Where did young unwed mothers stay?
(a) With their lovers
(b) With distant relatives
(c) With their parents
(d) With the preacher's wife

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not something Martha noted in her diary about each birth?

2. What is Martha accused of taking from a neighbor?

3. With whom does Dolly Ballard apprentice as a dressmaker?

4. Who moves into the Ballard house after their two daughters and niece leave to live with their new husbands?

5. Were marriages arranged in the 18th century?

Short Essay Questions

1. In addition to being a midwife, Martha also had a weaving business. How did that get started?

2. What was the nature of the relationship between midwives and physicians during Martha's lifetime?

3. How much detail did Martha include in her diary about each birth?

4. What were the typical courting practices in late 18th century America?

5. During what years did Martha keep her diary?

6. Which of Martha's relatives were married by 1792?

7. Explain the metaphor of the community as a blue-checked cloth.

8. Both Ephraim and Martha had businesses to manage. How were their approaches to business different?

9. What is so amazing about Martha's diary and why do some people speculate that she began writing it?

10. What was the pattern of new births in the year 1793?

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