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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
Answered: 203 times
Correct: 62 times (16.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 141 times (38.5%)
Skipped: 163 times (44.5%)
  Which poem did Sylvia Plath almost immediately write after vistiting her father's grave for the first time at the age of 26?

(Hint 1: Think about which year these poems were written, especially one of them!
Hint 2: Think of "The Bell Jar" when Esther visits the grave of her father!)
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Answered: 117 times
Correct: 23 times (13.7%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 94 times (56.0%)
Skipped: 51 times (30.4%)
  Which Shakespearean play that she saw as a child inspired Sylvia Plath's poem "Ariel"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 1039 times
Correct: 678 times (51.4%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 361 times (27.3%)
Skipped: 281 times (21.3%)
  Whose gravestone bears the inscription

"Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted" ?
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Answered: 98 times
Correct: 56 times (35.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 42 times (26.8%)
Skipped: 59 times (37.6%)
  Where is Sylvia Plath burried? see if you know the answer
Answered: 96 times
Correct: 30 times (20.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 66 times (44.6%)
Skipped: 52 times (35.1%)
  How many children did Sylvia Plath have? see if you know the answer
Answered: 108 times
Correct: 65 times (42.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 43 times (28.1%)
Skipped: 45 times (29.4%)
  How many children did Ted Hughes have? see if you know the answer
Answered: 79 times
Correct: 40 times (29.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 39 times (28.9%)
Skipped: 56 times (41.5%)
  Is it true that Ted Hughes' mistress Assia Wevill commited suicide in the same manner as Sylvia Plath did six years earlier? see if you know the answer
Answered: 82 times
Correct: 69 times (69.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 13 times (13.0%)
Skipped: 18 times (18.0%)

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