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