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Sylvia Plath
Contributed by: Ashcroft
  • 1. When was Sylvia Plath born?
A) 1932
B) 1955
C) 1945
D) 1920
  • 2. Where was Sylvia Plath born?
A) London, England
B) New York City, New York
C) Boston, Massachusetts
D) Paris, France
  • 3. What was the title of Sylvia Plath's only novel?
A) The Catcher in the Rye
B) The Bell Jar
C) To Kill a Mockingbird
D) The Yellow Wallpaper
  • 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) 1980
B) 1963
C) 1970
D) 1955
  • 6. Which poet famously referred to Sylvia Plath as 'the martyr of the kitchen'?
A) Elizabeth Bishop
B) Anne Sexton
C) Maya Angelou
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 7. What is the name of Sylvia Plath's first poetry collection?
A) Ariel
B) The Colossus
C) Leaves of Grass
D) The Waste Land
  • 8. What was Sylvia Plath's profession?
A) Musician
B) Architect
C) Poet
D) Painter
  • 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) Harvard University
B) Oxford University
C) Yale University
D) Cambridge University
  • 11. Sylvia Plath was married to which poet?
A) Ted Hughes
B) Robert Frost
C) Langston Hughes
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 12. What prestigious poetry prize did Sylvia Plath posthumously win in 1982?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) National Book Award
C) Booker Prize
D) Nobel Prize in Literature
  • 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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