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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through April 1806.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Martha strongly believed in _____________ to make her patients feel better.
(a) drinking water
(b) sitting in the sun
(c) taking a nap
(d) purging the body

3. Martha's training was _________________________.
(a) traditional and manual
(b) literary and experimental
(c) manual and experimental
(d) traditional and experimental

4. In what year was Martha Ballard born?
(a) 1735
(b) 1776
(c) 1800
(d) 1753

5. In what year does Martha start her diary?
(a) 1776
(b) 1785
(c) 1812
(d) 1790

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Martha's diary provide to historians?

2. How many young women did Martha employ in her home between the years of 1785-1800?

3. Physicians often doubled as what profession?

4. What is Martha's physical state?

5. What does young Ephraim do after the family's move?

(see the answer key)

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