What does the case of mary dyer in 1660 illustrate? a. puritans practiced a fierce rhetoric but were lenient in practice. b. quakers had a tenuous grasp on the social realities of the english colonies. c. quakers were willing to defy authority even at their own personal risk and expense. d. quakers practiced their religion without a church and without clergy.

c. Quakers were willing to defy authority even at their own personal risk and expense.

Explanation:

Mary Dyer (1611–1660) was an American Puritan who became a Quaker and one of the Boston martyrs. Just like Marmaduke Stephenson, William Robinson and William Leddra of Barbados, also from the Society of Friends,   Mary was sentenced to death and hung for repeatedly resisting a Puritan order that forbade Quakers in the colony, following the authority of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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