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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through February 1801.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Martha used her diary to _________________.
(a) track her businesses
(b) complain about her husband
(c) vent about emotional problems
(d) unload her problems

2. What did away with the community female healers?
(a) Fewer patients
(b) More hospitals
(c) Fewer women in the profession
(d) Professionalism and male dominance

3. Where do Martha and Ephraim build a house?
(a) In Augusta
(b) On Jonathan's farm
(c) In Kennebunk
(d) In Portland

4. Who moves into the Ballard house after their two daughters and niece leave to live with their new husbands?
(a) Betsy and Rebecca
(b) Betsy and Ellen
(c) Sally and Ellen
(d) Betsy and Sally

5. How many times in 27 years of midwife practice did Martha ever call a doctor?
(a) 2
(b) 10
(c) 7
(d) 15

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Dolly Ballard apprentice as a dressmaker?

2. Who is Reverend Isaac Foster?

3. Physicians often doubled as what profession?

4. What does Martha experience for the first time during this period?

5. On whom does Martha rely heavily during this period?

(see the answer key)

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