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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With whom does Dolly Ballard apprentice as a dressmaker?
(a) Mrs. Franklin
(b) Mrs. Densmore
(c) Mrs. Dunham
(d) Mrs. Foster

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

4. In what town are the Ballards living in 1787?
(a) Halperin
(b) Hallowell
(c) Boston
(d) Albany

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people died during the epidemic in 1787?

2. Which of the following was not one of Ephraim's professions?

3. In what town to Martha and Ephraim settle?

4. Everyone knew that birth was a ______________ process.

5. Martha's success rate was ____________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the contentious relationship between Reverend Foster and Henry Sewall.

2. During what years did Martha keep her diary?

3. What was the opinion of Reverend Foster by the Calvinists in the town and whose was the principal voice among them?

4. How many times did Martha engage a doctor during her midwife practice?

5. How did people perceive Martha in the community?

6. What details about each birth did Martha choose to exclude from her diary?

7. How has Martha's diary been perceived by historians?

8. What did Martha charge for delivering a baby?

9. How does Martha's diary show the male-dominated society in which she lived?

10. How did Martha procure her medicines and what treatments did she advocate?

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