Sylvia Plath: Poems Quizzes

Sylvia Plath: Poems Quiz 1

1 As reflected in her poetry, Sylvia Plath's most tortured relationship was with her:
father

mother

aunt

brother
2 Plath attended and taught at:
Harvard University

Columbia University

Boston College

Smith College
3 Plath's only novel is entitled:
Nick and the Candlestick

Ariel

The Bell Jar

The Colossus
4 Plath died from:
suicide

a car crash

illness

accidental drowning
5 Plath's poetry is considered part of which movement?
Confessional poetry

Romanticism

Modernism

Realism
6 Which fairy tale does Plath adapt in one of her most famous juvenilia poems?
Cinderella

The Little Mermaid

Snow White

Bluebeard
7 What frightens the fairytale heroine in the poem named after her?
An ogre

The clock

Fire

A witch
8 "Full Fathom Five" compares Plath's father to a:
sea god

god of the underworld

god of war

fire god
9 What natural danger is Plath's father compared to in "Full Fathom Five"?
A huge cliff

An abyss

Ice-mountains

A thundercloud
10 At the end of "Full Fathom Five," Plath's father seems to be:
alive

exiled

dead and buried

killed by Plath
11 "Full Fathom Five" alludes to which Shakespearean play?
Hamlet

Othello

The Tempest

Julius Caesar
12 Which character speaks the words "full fathom five" in Shakespeare's play?
Iago

Ariel

Hamlet

Prospero
13 "Metaphors" refers to a(n) _________ woman.
pregnant

beautiful

sick

elderly
14 In "Metaphors," Plath compares herself to all of the following EXCEPT:
a pig

an elephant

a bag of green apples

a melon
15 At the end of "Metaphors," Plath compares her pregnancy to:
a train that she can't get off of

a natural disaster

a miracle

a plague
16 "The Colossus" is assumed to be about:
Nicholas Hughes

Ted Hughes

Robert Lowell

Otto Plath
17 The sounds that the colossus emits are compared to:
poetry

an opera

an explosion

a barnyard
18 Plath wonders whether the colossus considers himself:
an oracle

a god

a devil

a savior
19 What work of Greek literature is mentioned in "The Colossus"?
Antigone

Oedipus Rex

The Oresteia

The Iliad
20 Where does the poet spend the night in "The Colossus"?
In the statue's stomach

In the statue's hand

In the statue's mouth

In the statue's ear
21 At the end of "The Colossus," the speaker says she no longer waits to hear:
a boat

an explosion

a voice

a child's cry
22 In "A Life," the speaker first describes:
a pregnant woman

a Nazi

a painting

a statue
23 The woman in "A Life" is speaking from:
a foggy field

a cabin

a car

a hospital room
24 In "A Life," the speaker compares to the future to:
a cat

an elephant

a sheep

a seagull
25 In "A Life," the speaker can be described as:
excited and jumpy

angry

guilty

quiet and detached