Online Document Exercises

Index: Elizabeth Knap of Groton 1883

Read the article at the following URL. Test your knowledge by answering the questions below.

A briefe account of a strange & unusuall Providence of God befallen to Elizabeth Knap of Groton
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/groton/grointro.htm


 

Questions

1. What does editor Samuel A. Green say about the prevalence of belief in witchcraft in the seventeenth century?

2. What "evidence" of witchcraft does Samuel Williard find in Elizabeth Knap?

3. What were the details of John Williard’s supposed association with witchcraft?

4. What were the consequences of that supposed association?

5. How does the quote from Sir William Blackstone attest to the power of Christianity throughout much of the history of the United States and the western world?

 

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