Which of the Following Fits the Description of a Person

question 11

Multiple Choice

Which of the following fits the description of a person most likely to have been accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England?

• A) a single young woman whose attractiveness meant that some saw her as a threat to Puritan values.
• B) a married woman who normally was subservient to her husband and the community,which made her behavior seem all the more bizarre.
• C) a widow who presumably was too lonely or too dependent on the community to be taken seriously,but who had to be tried and convicted to keep others from thinking similarly.
• D) a married woman who had just lost a child.
• E) a woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken,economically independent,or estranged from her husband.

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Definitions:

Inadequate Parenting

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Colic

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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

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Emergency Department

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