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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through August 1787.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Martha charge for each birth?
(a) 12 shillings
(b) 10 shillings
(c) 3 shillings
(d) 6 shillings

2. Physicians often doubled as what profession?
(a) Newspaper Editor
(b) Lawyer
(c) Justice of the Peace
(d) Judge

3. How many people died during the epidemic in 1787?
(a) 5
(b) 15
(c) 50
(d) 150

4. Martha's medicines contained no more than _________ ingredients.
(a) four
(b) three
(c) ten
(d) five

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what town are the Ballards living in 1787?

2. What did Martha use as purgatives?

3. What happens to Ephraim's mill in 1787?

4. On what river does Martha spend much of her time?

5. Martha strongly believed in _____________ to make her patients feel better.

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