Anne Bradstreet: First American Poet

Anne Dudley was born in 1612 in

• Northanger Abbey, England
• Northwestern England
• Northhampton, England
• London, England

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At the age of 16 Anne married

• Simon Bradstreet
• Samuel Bradhurst
• Simeon Bradford
• Sammy Davis Jr.

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Anne's father provided an education for Anne that was _____ for that time period.

• appropriate
• adequate
• unusual
• poor

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Anne and her husband traveled to ______ in 1630.

• New Zeland
• Australia
• America
• Alaska

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In spite of her poor health, Anne and her husband had ______ children in their family.

• one
• five
• two
• eight

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Anne was known for being America's first ____.

• poet.
• published poet.
• female poet.
• All of the above

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Anne Bradstreet was well known for her ____.

• novels
• poetry
• cakes
• sewing

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Anne felt angry about the fact that religious leaders believed that women _______.

• should work outside of the home
• should write letters 
• should not write poetry
• should let their servants clean and cook

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Anne's poems included both her religious upbringing and some of her own thoughts and were published in England as ______________ by her brother-in-law.

• The 10 Poems
• The 10th Book of Poems
• The 10th Muse
• The  10th American

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Anne died at the age of 60 in ____.

• 1672
• 1772
• 1872
• 1572