Question

Which of the following fits the description of a person most likely to have been accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England? a single young woman whose attractiveness meant that some saw her as a threat to Puritan values a married woman who normally was subservient to her husband and the community, which made her behavior seem all the more bizarre 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 a married woman who had just lost a child a woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband

Answer 1

D - a woman beyond childbearing age (or who had just lost a child) and who as outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband.

During seventeenth-century New England women were to be quiet and subservient, anyone who challenged a man or who had their own thoughts were considered to be a witch.