Writing is
a) a skill that improves with practice.
b) always done the same way by every writer.
c) a single act.
d) easy for almost everyone.
a
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Childbirth in Colonial America was a difficult and sometimes dangerous experience for women. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between 1 and 1.5 percent of all births ended in the mother’s death—as a result of exhaustion, dehydration, infection, hemorrhage, or convulsions. Since the typical mother gave birth to between five and eight children, her lifetime chances of dying in childbirth ran as high as one in eight. This meant that if a woman had eight female friends, it was likely that one would die in childbirth. Understandably, many colonial women regarded pregnancy with dread. In their letters, women often referred to childbirth as “the greatest of earthly miserys,” or “that evel hour I loock forward to with dread.” Many, like New England poet Ann Bradstreet,
approached childbirth with a fear of impending death. In addition to her anxieties about pregnancy, an expectant mother was filled with apprehensions about the survival of her newborn child. The death of a child in infancy was far more common than it is today. In the healthiest seventeenth-century communities, one infant in ten died before the age of five. In less healthy environments, three children in ten died before their fifth birthday. Puritan minister Cotton Mather saw eight of his fifteen children die before reaching the age of two. 1. The tone of the passage is a. academic. b. informal. c. nostalgic. 2. The purpose of the passage is to a. contrast Colonial Era childbirth to current-day childbirth. b. inform the reader of the realities of childbirth during the Colonial Era. c. persuade the reader that men took advantage of women during the Colonial Era. 3. A colonial woman’s chances of dying in childbirth were a. one in ten. b. one in 1.5. c. one in eight. 4. The sentence, “In the healthiest seventeenth-century communities, one infant in ten died before the age of five,” is a statement of a. opinion. b. fact. c. inference. 5. The words “miserys,” “evel,” and “loock,” are most likely a. examples of colonial spelling. b. misspellings. c. typographical errors.