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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 experience for the first time during this period?
(a) The death of a mother and child
(b) The birth of her first child
(c) The first time she delivers a child
(d) The Baptism of her last child

2. Which of the following is not a product for which Martha used herbs?
(a) Compresses
(b) Hallucinogens
(c) Teas
(d) Ointments

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

4. What is the epidemic in the summer of 1787?
(a) Malaria
(b) Smallpox
(c) Measles
(d) Scarlet fever

5. Who is Ephraim Ballard?
(a) Martha's brother-in-law
(b) Martha's first son
(c) Martha's father-in-law
(d) Martha's husband

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years did Martha work as a midwife?

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

3. What does Martha's diary provide to historians?

4. In what year does Martha start her diary?

5. Martha began to keep a diary because ___________________________.

(see the answer key)

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