Plath's Timeline
Plath's Work
Vocab
Historical Events
Major Authors
100
Plath was born during..
What is The Great Depression
100
Which fairytale did Plath retell?
What is Cinderella
100
Define: Incendiary
What is: designed to cause fires
100
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech titled...
What is "I Have A Dream"
100
Author of "The Shining"
What is Stephen King
200
In 1950 Sylvia started college where?
What is Smith College
200
What was "The Colossus" believed to be written about?
What is Plath's dead father
200
Define: Convival
What is: Jovial; sociable
200
What year was JFK assassinated?
What is 1963
200
Author of "Tomcat in Love"
What is Tim O' Brien
300
In 1956 Plath married..
What is Ted Hughes
300
Which of Sylvia's poems were written about a women recovering from an operation in a hospital?
What is "Tulips"
300
Define: Acrimoniously
What is: Bitterly; harshly
300
In 1990 the US population was about..
What is 249 Million
300
Author of "The Joy Luck Club"
What is Amy Tan
400
Plath's poem "The Colossus" was published the same year that...
What is her daughter was born
400
"Cut" was written about..
What is a speaker that slices her thumb with a kitchen knife
400
Define: Valor
What is: Great courage
400
What year did the Korean War end?
What is 1953
400
Who wrote "Beloved"
What is Toni Morrison
500
In 1963 Sylvia died of what?
What is gas inhalation.
500
Plath's final poem was titled..
What is "Edge"
500
Define: Conscientiously
What is: Diligently; thoroughly
500
In what year was the US population about 179 million?
What is 1960
500
Author of "Call if you Need Me"
What is Raymond Carver
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