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