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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the state of Martha's accounts at this point?
(a) Broke
(b) Healthy
(c) Meager
(d) Could be better

2. Where did Martha deep much of her accounting?
(a) Her bedside table
(b) Her kitchen cupboard
(c) Her desk drawer
(d) Her diary

3. How many babies did Martha deliver in 1793?
(a) 17
(b) 35
(c) 53
(d) 37

4. What is Isaac Foster's wife's name?
(a) Ellen
(b) Martha
(c) Elizabeth
(d) Rebecca

5. What was the relationship between doctors and midwives during this period?
(a) Skeptical
(b) Nonexistent
(c) Amicable
(d) Hostile

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

7. How many people died during the epidemic in 1787?
(a) 50
(b) 5
(c) 150
(d) 15

8. What did Martha use as purgatives?
(a) Licorice
(b) Marshmallow root
(c) Henna
(d) Senna

9. Which of the following is not a way in which Martha would discuss a man in her diary?
(a) Intimate
(b) Business
(c) Friend
(d) Legal

10. Which prominent man in Hallowell did not like Isaac Foster?
(a) James Franklin
(b) Henry Sewall
(c) John Smith
(d) Thomas Sewall

11. Martha's success rate was comparable to the statistics of the _______________.
(a) 1920s
(b) 1860s
(c) 1930s
(d) 1890s

12. In what town was Martha Ballard born?
(a) Oxford, England
(b) Oxford, Massachusetts
(c) Oxford, Ohio
(d) Oxford, Mississippi

13. Everyone knew that birth was a ______________ process.
(a) unnecessary
(b) natural
(c) ridiculous
(d) unnatural

14. How many children did Martha have?
(a) 6
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 9

15. What was the birth to death ratio in Martha's town between the years of 1785 and 1790?
(a) 10:1
(b) 4:1
(c) 1:1
(d) 3:1

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the churches in each town supported?

2. What happens to Ephraim's mill in 1787?

3. In what year does Martha start her diary?

4. What is the perception of midwives among those in authority?

5. Because of Dr. Page's training, Martha thinks he is _______________.

(see the answer keys)

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