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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through March 1804.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Martha's sister's name?
(a) Dorothy Ballard
(b) Clara Barton
(c) Elizabeth Brown
(d) Dorothy Barton

2. How did Ephraim and Jonathan assist in Martha's weaving business?
(a) Weaving
(b) Sheared sheep and broke flax
(c) Sales
(d) Accounting

3. How could birth be a dangerous process?
(a) If the baby was premature
(b) If it was a breech birth
(c) If the woman was alone
(d) If it was a multiple birth

4. Who moves into Martha's house with her?
(a) Hannah and her family
(b) Ephraim's sister
(c) Jonathan and his family
(d) Her sister

5. What role did the men play in the delivery of a child?
(a) Cut the umbilical cord
(b) Boiled the water
(c) Cut the bandages
(d) Transported the midwife and nurses

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Martha's biggest problem during Ephraim's incarceration?

2. What terms does Martha very seldom use for women in her diary?

3. A physician's training was ___________________________.

4. How many times in 27 years of midwife practice did Martha ever call a doctor?

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

(see the answer key)

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