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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through April 1806.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Martha's success rate was ____________________.
(a) average
(b) very high
(c) high
(d) below average

2. How many people in the Ballard household get married in 1792?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 2
(d) 1

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

4. Where did Martha deep much of her accounting?
(a) Her bedside table
(b) Her desk drawer
(c) Her diary
(d) Her kitchen cupboard

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of his children did the answer to #148 kill?

2. Whose illegitimate child does Martha deliver in October of 1791?

3. How many nights had Ephraim spent in the woods as a surveyor?

4. Who committed a murder/suicide on July 9, 1806?

5. What was Martha always sure to include when she mentioned a man in her diary?

(see the answer key)

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