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Question 1: The hunt began two years after the death of Oliver Cromwell and a year after Charles II had recovered the crown, making him the king of ________, Scotland, and Ireland.
United KingdomBritish peopleEnglandWales

Question 2: Although witchcraft was outlawed in ________ during the 1500s and 1600s, some women still practiced 'white' witchcraft.
EnglandScotlandWalesUnited Kingdom

Question 3: The areas mainly affected by this were the ________ and adjacent parts, as well as Scotland.
FranciaHoly Roman EmpireGerman EmpireByzantine Empire

Question 4: Several freelance witch-hunters emerged during this period, the most notorious of whom was ________, who emerged out of East Anglia and proclaimed himself "Witchfinder General".
Witch trials in Early Modern EuropeWitchfinder General (film)Matthew HopkinsEngland

Question 5: Minnen of witchcraft in the village of Witgoor, in the Kempen region of ________.
LilleSouthern NetherlandsFlandersBelgium

Question 6: ________ was sometimes used as a means of execution.
DrowningOxygen toxicityDecompression sicknessBarotrauma

Question 7: Like Anna Göldi, Barbara Zdunk was executed in 1811 in ________ not technically for witchcraft but for arson.
PrussiaHamburgGerman EmpireEast Prussia

Question 8: Witch hunting was thereafter sustained throughout the ________ period.
Modern historyEarly modern periodHigh Middle AgesAncient history

Question 9: The idea of witch sabbats fostered a classical ________, with fantasies of an underground witch sect plotting to overthrow Christianity.
Conspiracy fiction9/11 conspiracy theoriesConspiracy theoryNew World Order (conspiracy theory)

Question 10: Many of those convicted of witchcraft during the rule of ________ were found innocent after his death in 1659, but many of them were re-accused by the administration of Charles II.
Alfred the GreatEnglish Civil WarOliver CromwellCnut the Great
















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