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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people in the Ballard household get married in 1792?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 3

2. A physician's training was ___________________________.
(a) experimental and literary
(b) traditional and manual
(c) traditional and experimental
(d) experimental and manual

3. What played an important role in selecting a marriage partner?
(a) education
(b) wealth
(c) geography
(d) health

4. An unwed mother was required to _______________________.
(a) give her baby up
(b) raise the child alone
(c) marry the child's father
(d) admit to the crime of fornication

5. What did Dr. Page not understand?
(a) false labor
(b) hormones
(c) breech birth
(d) obstetrics

Short Answer Questions

1. Which social and economic class had more out-of-wedlock births?

2. What is the function of a midwife?

3. Premarital sex in 18th century New England is considered to be ______________.

4. What happens to Jonathan Ballard during his employment with Peter Jones at the mill?

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

(see the answer key)

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