Sylvia Plath: Poems Quizzes

Sylvia Plath: Poems Quiz 1

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

aunt

brother

father
2 Plath attended and taught at:
Harvard University

Boston College

Columbia University

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

The Colossus

The Bell Jar

Ariel
4 Plath died from:
illness

a car crash

accidental drowning

suicide
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?
Bluebeard

The Little Mermaid

Cinderella

Snow White
7 What frightens the fairytale heroine in the poem named after her?
A witch

An ogre

The clock

Fire
8 "Full Fathom Five" compares Plath's father to a:
god of war

sea god

god of the underworld

fire god
9 What natural danger is Plath's father compared to in "Full Fathom Five"?
An abyss

A thundercloud

Ice-mountains

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

killed by Plath

exiled

dead and buried
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?
Hamlet

Ariel

Prospero

Iago
13 "Metaphors" refers to a(n) _________ woman.
sick

pregnant

elderly

beautiful
14 In "Metaphors," Plath compares herself to all of the following EXCEPT:
a bag of green apples

an elephant

a melon

a pig
15 At the end of "Metaphors," Plath compares her pregnancy to:
a miracle

a train that she can't get off of

a plague

a natural disaster
16 "The Colossus" is assumed to be about:
Otto Plath

Robert Lowell

Ted Hughes

Nicholas Hughes
17 The sounds that the colossus emits are compared to:
a barnyard

an opera

poetry

an explosion
18 Plath wonders whether the colossus considers himself:
a god

an oracle

a savior

a devil
19 What work of Greek literature is mentioned in "The Colossus"?
The Oresteia

Oedipus Rex

Antigone

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

In the statue's hand

In the statue's mouth

In the statue's stomach
21 At the end of "The Colossus," the speaker says she no longer waits to hear:
an explosion

a child's cry

a voice

a boat
22 In "A Life," the speaker first describes:
a statue

a painting

a pregnant woman

a Nazi
23 The woman in "A Life" is speaking from:
a cabin

a car

a hospital room

a foggy field
24 In "A Life," the speaker compares to the future to:
a seagull

a cat

an elephant

a sheep
25 In "A Life," the speaker can be described as:
quiet and detached

angry

excited and jumpy

guilty