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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through January 1796.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Jonathan Ballard during his employment with Peter Jones at the mill?
(a) He was injured
(b) He was promoted
(c) He bought the business
(d) He was terminated

2. What is the perception of midwives among those in authority?
(a) Skepticism
(b) Trust
(c) Scorn
(d) Fear

3. Martha used her diary to _________________.
(a) unload her problems
(b) track her businesses
(c) vent about emotional problems
(d) complain about her husband

4. Society during Martha's time was described as a ___________________.
(a) spider's web
(b) blue-checked cloth
(c) ladder
(d) ripple in a pool

5. Which of the following is not something Martha noted in her diary about each birth?
(a) Comments about the woman's body
(b) Gender of the baby
(c) Time of birth
(d) Payment

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not one of Martha's professions?

2. What is Martha's sister's name?

3. Where do Martha and Ephraim build a house?

4. Delivering babies was left primarily to whom?

5. Martha's training was _________________________.

(see the answer key)

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