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
Ans: e. a woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband
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