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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through April 1806.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Martha strongly believed in _____________ to make her patients feel better.
(a) taking a nap
(b) drinking water
(c) purging the body
(d) sitting in the sun

2. What is the function of a midwife?
(a) Teacher
(b) Deliver babies
(c) Weaver
(d) Housekeeping

3. In what town to Martha and Ephraim settle?
(a) Hallowell
(b) Houston
(c) Hightower
(d) Hingham

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the two children who survived?

2. What is the name of the man who came for the two remaining children?

3. Martha used her diary to _________________.

4. How many times in 27 years of midwife practice did Martha ever call a doctor?

5. In Martha's time it was a common practice for _______________ to attend autopsies.

(see the answer key)

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