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.