The Half-Way Covenant of 1662: a. allowed Baptists and Quakers to attend, but not join, Puritan churches. b. did not require evidence of conversion to grant a kind of church membership. c. permitted anyone who paid a tithe to be baptized in a Puritan church. d. set up civil government in Massachusetts. e. gave women limited voting rights in Puritan congregations.

b. did not require evidence of conversion to grant a kind of church membership.

Explanation:

The Half-Way Covenant of 1662 -

It refers to as the partial church membership which was adopted by the  Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s .

Where there were partial rights into the Puritan Church .

It reduces the difference between the elected members and the regular members .

The majority was the women in the Puritan congregations.

Hence , from the given question ,

The correct answer is b.

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