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Which of these books is NOT a [a:Sylvia Plath|4379|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188476749p2/4379.jpg] biography? Which of these books is NOT a Sylvia Plath biography? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 140 times (38.4%)
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  What label came to define poetry by Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton, among others, that focused on extreme autobiographical details about sex, divorce, alcoholism, insanity, which led readers to believe the poets had lived through those experiences personally? see if you know the answer
Answered: 275 times
Correct: 244 times (73.1%)
Difficulty: easy
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  How many novels did Sylvia Plath write?
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Difficulty: medium
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  What image does Esther Greenwood associate with the future possibilities of her life?

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The Bell Jar 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 450 times
Correct: 173 times (27.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
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  For which collection did Sylvia Plath win the Pulitzer Prize?

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Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 134 times (55.8%)
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  What strange show did Sylvia Plath put on when meeting Ted Hughes at a party for the St. Botolph's Review?


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Answered: 158 times
Correct: 76 times (34.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 82 times (36.9%)
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  What occurs after Esther Greenwood loses her virginity in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar?

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Difficulty: medium
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Skipped: 94 times (14.5%)
  Ted Hughes famously wrote which poetry collection in response to the mythographies surrounding his relationship to Sylvia Plath? [Hint: Published in the year of his death.] see if you know the answer
Answered: 156 times
Correct: 102 times (45.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 54 times (24.1%)
Skipped: 68 times (30.4%)
  Sylvia Plath allegedly completed or nearly completed two novels besides The Bell Jar. What was one of the titles? see if you know the answer
Answered: 135 times
Correct: 25 times (11.7%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 110 times (51.6%)
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  Sylvia Plath's final home was at 23 Fitzroy Road in London--a flat previously occupied by another famous poet. Who was it?

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Answered: 156 times
Correct: 71 times (31.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 85 times (37.3%)
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  Name the poet:

"I'm a riddle in nine syllables.
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 186 times
Correct: 96 times (36.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 90 times (33.8%)
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  Which author became both patron and godmother to Sylvia Plath? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: difficult
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Skipped: 112 times (41.5%)
  The subject matter of whose work was described by fellow poet Philip Larkin as "variously, neurosis, insanity, disease, death, horror, terror"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 171 times
Correct: 111 times (44.2%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 60 times (23.9%)
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  What was Esther and Doreen's nickname for Betsy in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar? see if you know the answer
Answered: 634 times
Correct: 431 times (46.2%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 203 times (21.8%)
Skipped: 298 times (32.0%)
"They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls." Is a verse from which [a:Sylvia Plath|4379|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188476749p2/4379.jpg] poem? "They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls."
Is a verse from which Sylvia Plath poem? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 2034 times
Correct: 1231 times (37.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 803 times (24.3%)
Skipped: 1265 times (38.3%)
  Under what pseudonym did Sylvia Plath originally publish her one and only novel, The Bell Jar, under?
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Correct: 265 times (60.2%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 105 times (23.9%)
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Which famous writer's house did [a:Sylvia Plath|4379|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188476749p2/4379.jpg] live in London on 23 Fitzroy Road from 1962-1963? Which famous writer's house did Sylvia Plath live in London on 23 Fitzroy Road from 1962-1963? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: difficult
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Which pseudonym did [a:Sylvia Plath|4379|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188476749p2/4379.jpg] use for the first publication of [b:The Bell Jar|6514|The Bell Jar|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232208473s/6514.jpg|1385044] in 1963? Which pseudonym did Sylvia Plath use for the first publication of The Bell Jar in 1963? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 342 times (21.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
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  Sylvia Plath originally published The Bell Jar under what pseudonym? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 174 times (36.0%)
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Who wrote the poem? "Sylvia's Death - for Sylvia Plath O Sylvia, Sylvia, with a dead box of stones and spoons, with two children, two meteors wandering loose in a tiny playroom, with your mouth into the sheet, into the roofbeam, into the dumb prayer, (Sylvia, Sylvia where did you go after you wrote me from Devonshire about rasing potatoes and keeping bees?)" [...:] Who wrote the poem?

"Sylvia's Death - for Sylvia Plath

O Sylvia, Sylvia,
with a dead box of stones and spoons,

with two children, two meteors
wandering loose in a tiny playroom,

with your mouth into the sheet,
into the roofbeam, into the dumb prayer,

(Sylvia, Sylvia
where did you go
after you wrote me
from Devonshire
about rasing potatoes
and keeping bees?)"

[...:] 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 135 times
Correct: 85 times (44.7%)
Difficulty: medium
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What is the name Esther Greenwood uses in [a:Sylvia Plath|4379|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188476749p2/4379.jpg]'s [b:The Bell Jar|6514|The Bell Jar|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232208473s/6514.jpg|1385044] while talking to the sailor in Boston? What is the name Esther Greenwood uses in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar while talking to the sailor in Boston? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: medium
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Which kind of suicide attempt is NOT feautured in [a:Sylvia Plath|4379|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188476749p2/4379.jpg]'s [b:The Bell Jar|6514|The Bell Jar|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232208473s/6514.jpg|1385044]? Which kind of suicide attempt is NOT feautured in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 574 times (40.4%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 532 times (37.5%)
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Who is [a:Frieda Hughes|157481|Frieda Hughes|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1226162135p2/157481.jpg]? Who is Frieda Hughes? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 184 times (31.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
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[a:Kate Moses|80961|Kate Moses|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]' book "Wintering" is also "a novel of [which famous writer:]"? Kate Moses' book "Wintering" is also "a novel of [which famous writer:]"?
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Answered: 245 times
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Difficulty: difficult
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Which kind of flowers are on the bathrobe, Esther Greenwood is wearing in the [b:The Bell Jar|6514|The Bell Jar|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232208473s/6514.jpg|1385044] the night she throws all her clothes down the roof of the Amazon Hotel in New York? Which kind of flowers are on the bathrobe, Esther Greenwood is wearing in the The Bell Jar the night she throws all her clothes down the roof of the Amazon Hotel in New York?
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Correct: 299 times (21.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 543 times (38.1%)
Skipped: 582 times (40.9%)
Complete the title of [a:Sylvia Plath|4379|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188476749p2/4379.jpg]'s short story collection: "Johnny Panic and the Bible of ..."? Complete the title of Sylvia Plath's short story collection:

"Johnny Panic and the Bible of ..."?
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Answered: 305 times
Correct: 204 times (32.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 101 times (16.3%)
Skipped: 316 times (50.9%)
  In Sylvia Plath's book The Bell Jar, what food served at the Ladies Day banquet made Esther and the other attendees ill? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 1548 times (40.7%)
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What do [a:Sylvia Plath|4379|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188476749p2/4379.jpg], [a:Anne Sexton|26814|Anne Sexton|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1204413778p2/26814.jpg], [a:Robert Lowell|36912|Robert Lowell|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206627850p2/36912.jpg] and [a:Allen Ginsberg|4261|Allen Ginsberg|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206649831p2/4261.jpg] have in common? What do Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg have in common? see if you know the answer
Answered: 494 times
Correct: 240 times (32.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 254 times (34.1%)
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In [b:The Bell Jar|6514|The Bell Jar|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232208473s/6514.jpg|1385044], what kind of food does Esther Greenwood burry in the sand, when she goes to the beach with Jody and Cal? In The Bell Jar, what kind of food does Esther Greenwood burry in the sand, when she goes to the beach with Jody and Cal?
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Correct: 480 times (34.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 300 times (21.5%)
Skipped: 616 times (44.1%)
  From what novel is the following passage excerpted?: "I was supposed to be having the time of my life. . . . I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus. I guess I should have been excited the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn’t get myself to react. (I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.)" see if you know the answer
Answered: 1226 times
Correct: 1179 times (78.7%)
Difficulty: easy
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