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