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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. Martha's success rate was ____________________.
(a) very high
(b) average
(c) high
(d) below average

2. What is Martha's sister's name?
(a) Dorothy Barton
(b) Clara Barton
(c) Elizabeth Brown
(d) Dorothy Ballard

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

4. What is the bulk of Martha's diary?
(a) To-do list
(b) Opinions
(c) Daily activities
(d) Musings

5. Delivering babies was left primarily to whom?
(a) Doctors
(b) Midwives
(c) Husbands
(d) Nurses

Short Answer Questions

1. How many preachers was each town allowed?

2. Martha began to keep a diary because ___________________________.

3. Where did Martha deep much of her accounting?

4. What are Mr. Densmore's occupations?

5. In what year does Martha start her diary?

Short Essay Questions

1. How much detail did Martha include in her diary about each birth?

2. In general, how was the business in the community divided between men and women?

3. What were the circumstances surrounding the rape of Rebecca Foster?

4. In addition to being a midwife, Martha also had a weaving business. How did that get started?

5. Explain the metaphor of the community as a blue-checked cloth.

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

7. Explain why the summer of 1787 was very harrowing for the Ballard family.

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

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

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

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