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