View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through September 1788.

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 Baptism of her last child
(c) The first time she delivers a child
(d) The birth of her first child

2. What business did women handle during Martha's lifetime?
(a) Editorial work
(b) Unseen community business
(c) Education work
(d) Volunteer work

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

4. Which of Martha's daughters spun yarn for weaving and trading?
(a) Molly and Ellen
(b) Hannah and Molly
(c) Hannah and Dolly
(d) Hannah and Daisy

5. What was the death rate in Martha's town between the years of 1785 and 1790?
(a) 150 per 1000
(b) 15 per 1000
(c) 10 per 1500
(d) 50 per 1000

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ephraim and Jonathan assist in Martha's weaving business?

2. In what town to Martha and Ephraim settle?

3. Martha began to keep a diary because ___________________________.

4. How many people died during the epidemic in 1787?

5. Many historians consider Martha's diary to be _____________.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 196 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample