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Question 1

) In the seventeenth century, white women in the colonial Chesapeake
 
  A. bore an average of four children apiece.
 
  B. generally married later than in England.
 
  C. averaged one pregnancy for every two years of marriage.
 
  D. generally had a longer life expectancy than their husbands.
 
  E. rarely engaged in premarital sex.

Question 2

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, medical practitioners
 
  A. became increasingly professionalized.
 
  B. grew to understand the link between bacteria and infection.
 
  C. had little or no knowledge of sterilization.
 
  D. rejected purging and bleeding as medical techniques.
 
  E. were nearly all males.

Question 3

By 1775, the non-Indian population of the English colonies was just over
 
  A. 2 million.
 
  B. 4 million.
 
  C. 1 million.
 
  D. 6 million.
 
  E. 8 million.

Question 4

During the seventeenth century, English colonists in the Chesapeake saw
 
  A. women significantly outnumber men.
 
  B. an increasingly unbalanced sex ratio.
 
  C. eight out of ten children dying in infancy.
 
  D. few single adults.
 
  E. a life expectancy for men of just over forty years.



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