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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are 18th century weddings described?
(a) Extremely reserved
(b) Big events
(c) Over the top
(d) Conservative

2. How many young women did Martha employ in her home between the years of 1785-1800?
(a) 30
(b) 39
(c) 27
(d) 29

3. Which of the following is not a product for which Martha used herbs?
(a) Hallucinogens
(b) Compresses
(c) Ointments
(d) Teas

4. What marked the end of the "lying-in" period for a new mother?
(a) When the baby was considered healthy
(b) When one month had passed
(c) When she could make her own bed
(d) When the relatives went home

5. Why does Martha think Dr. Page will not be successful?
(a) He comes from a big city
(b) He has no connections in the town
(c) He is young and single
(d) He is too inexperienced

6. When could a man be charged with fornication?
(a) When an affair lasted more than six months
(b) When his partner was a young girl
(c) When he was married
(d) When he refused to take responsibility for a child

7. Where did young unwed mothers stay?
(a) With their lovers
(b) With distant relatives
(c) With their parents
(d) With the preacher's wife

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

9. How did Ephraim and Jonathan assist in Martha's weaving business?
(a) Sales
(b) Weaving
(c) Sheared sheep and broke flax
(d) Accounting

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

11. Premarital sex in 18th century New England is considered to be ______________.
(a) A crime
(b) Normal
(c) Rare
(d) Expected

12. To what state do Martha and Ephraim move with their family?
(a) Ohio
(b) New York
(c) Connecticut
(d) Maine

13. For how many years did Martha work as a midwife?
(a) 20
(b) 40
(c) 10
(d) 50

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

15. Society during Martha's time was described as a ___________________.
(a) ripple in a pool
(b) ladder
(c) blue-checked cloth
(d) spider's web

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Martha's daughters spun yarn for weaving and trading?

2. What role did the men play in the delivery of a child?

3. Which of the following was not one of Martha's professions?

4. In what year does Martha start her diary?

5. What is the bulk of Martha's diary?

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