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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 Isaac Foster's wife's name?
(a) Ellen
(b) Elizabeth
(c) Martha
(d) Rebecca

2. Which of the following is not a way in which Martha would discuss a man in her diary?
(a) Friend
(b) Intimate
(c) Business
(d) Legal

3. Which of the following was not one of Ephraim's professions?
(a) Tax collector
(b) Miller
(c) Attorney
(d) Surveyor

4. Where do Martha and Ephraim move their family?
(a) The Mill Pond house
(b) Henry Sewall's house
(c) Old Lieutenant Howard's house
(d) Captain North's house

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Martha start her diary?

2. What does young Ephraim do after the family's move?

3. When could a man be charged with fornication?

4. What is the term used when the groom retrieves his bride from her parents' home?

5. An unwed mother was required to _______________________.

(see the answer key)

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