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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Rebecca Foster accuse of raping her?
(a) Colonel North
(b) Thomas Sewall
(c) James Franklin
(d) Henry Sewall

2. What does Martha experience for the first time during this period?
(a) The death of a mother and child
(b) The birth of her first child
(c) The Baptism of her last child
(d) The first time she delivers a child

3. Which of the following was not one of Martha's professions?
(a) Housewife
(b) Physician
(c) Minister
(d) Pharmacist

4. What terms does Martha very seldom use for women in her diary?
(a) Lady or Madam
(b) Dame or Mistress
(c) Lady or Mistress
(d) Lady or Mam

5. Physicians often doubled as what profession?
(a) Lawyer
(b) Judge
(c) Justice of the Peace
(d) Newspaper Editor

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Reverend Isaac Foster?

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

3. When could a man be charged with fornication?

4. What did Martha use as purgatives?

5. Where did Martha deep much of her accounting?

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