Sylvia Plath
  • 1. When was Sylvia Plath born?
A) 1932
B) 1920
C) 1945
D) 1955
  • 2. Where was Sylvia Plath born?
A) London, England
B) Boston, Massachusetts
C) New York City, New York
D) Paris, France
  • 3. What was the title of Sylvia Plath's only novel?
A) The Yellow Wallpaper
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) The Bell Jar
D) The Catcher in the Rye
  • 4. Sylvia Plath wrote under a pen name. What was it?
A) Jane Austen
B) Jane Eyre
C) Emily Bronte
D) Victoria Lucas
  • 5. In which year did Sylvia Plath die?
A) 1970
B) 1963
C) 1955
D) 1980
  • 6. Which poet famously referred to Sylvia Plath as 'the martyr of the kitchen'?
A) Anne Sexton
B) Elizabeth Bishop
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Maya Angelou
  • 7. What is the name of Sylvia Plath's first poetry collection?
A) The Waste Land
B) Ariel
C) The Colossus
D) Leaves of Grass
  • 8. What was Sylvia Plath's profession?
A) Painter
B) Musician
C) Poet
D) Architect
  • 9. Which of the following poems was written by Sylvia Plath?
A) The Raven
B) The Waste Land
C) Daddy
D) Ode to a Nightingale
  • 10. Sylvia Plath was a Fulbright scholar at which university?
A) Harvard University
B) Cambridge University
C) Oxford University
D) Yale University
  • 11. Sylvia Plath was married to which poet?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Robert Frost
C) Ted Hughes
D) Langston Hughes
  • 12. What prestigious poetry prize did Sylvia Plath posthumously win in 1982?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) Nobel Prize in Literature
C) National Book Award
D) Booker Prize
  • 13. Sylvia Plath spent the last years of her life living in which country?
A) England
B) Italy
C) Germany
D) France
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