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