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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following was not one of Ephraim's professions?
(a) Tax collector
(b) Surveyor
(c) Attorney
(d) Miller

4. Why does Dr. Page become a problem for Martha?
(a) He opens his practice next door
(b) He includes midwifery in his practice
(c) He makes slanderous comments about her
(d) He sues her

5. What did Dr. Page not understand?
(a) breech birth
(b) hormones
(c) obstetrics
(d) false labor

Short Answer Questions

1. What term did Martha use for a woman in labor?

2. What business did men handle during Martha's lifetime?

3. A physician's training was ___________________________.

4. Why is Ephraim arrested?

5. Because of Dr. Page's training, Martha thinks he is _______________.

(see the answer key)

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