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