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

2. Martha used her diary to _________________.
(a) vent about emotional problems
(b) complain about her husband
(c) unload her problems
(d) track her businesses

3. What does Martha charge for each birth?
(a) 6 shillings
(b) 3 shillings
(c) 10 shillings
(d) 12 shillings

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

5. Martha's medicines contained no more than _________ ingredients.
(a) ten
(b) three
(c) four
(d) five

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Martha use as purgatives?

2. How many preachers was each town allowed?

3. How many babies did Martha deliver in 1793?

4. Who is Ephraim Ballard?

5. What is the function of a midwife?

Short Essay Questions

1. During what years did Martha keep her diary?

2. What is so amazing about Martha's diary and why do some people speculate that she began writing it?

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

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

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

6. What did Martha charge for delivering a baby?

7. Who was Dr. Page and what is his relationship with Martha?

8. What was the nature of the relationship between midwives and physicians during Martha's lifetime?

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

10. Where did Martha Ballard grow up and when did she marry her husband/

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