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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through November 1792.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the state of Martha's accounts at this point?
(a) Could be better
(b) Meager
(c) Broke
(d) Healthy

2. In what year does Martha start her diary?
(a) 1812
(b) 1776
(c) 1790
(d) 1785

3. What was Ephraim's profession?
(a) Surveyor and miller
(b) Surveyor and judge
(c) Lawyer and miller
(d) Lawyer and judge

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the epidemic in the summer of 1787?

2. Martha began to keep a diary because ___________________________.

3. Who does Rebecca Foster accuse of raping her?

4. Where did Martha deep much of her accounting?

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

(see the answer key)

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