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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through December 1793.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the wife expected to make for the couple's new home?
(a) Rugs
(b) A quilt
(c) Curtains
(d) New clothes

3. Everyone knew that birth was a ______________ process.
(a) ridiculous
(b) unnecessary
(c) unnatural
(d) natural

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

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Martha Ballard's maiden name?

2. How many young women did Martha employ in her home between the years of 1785-1800?

3. In what year does Martha start her diary?

4. What was the death rate in Martha's town between the years of 1785 and 1790?

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

(see the answer key)

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