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