The Puritans believed that male authority in the household was:
A) an outdated idea.
B) to be unquestioned.
C) so absolute that a husband could order the murder of his wife.
D) not supposed to resemble God's authority in any way, because that would be blasphemous.
E) limited only by the number of children—the more, the better.
Ans: B) to be unquestioned.
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