1. Daddy is a poem written by American Confessional poet Sylvia Plath. The poem was written on October 12, 1962, four months before her death and one month after her separation from______ ?
A:) Ted Hughes
B:) Otto Plath
C:) Frieda Hughes
D:) Nicholas Hughes
springline- Correct option: A:) Ted Hughes
2. Daddy: It was published posthumously in Ariel during 1965 alongside many other of her poems leading up to her death such as ‘Tulips‘ and ‘Lady Lazarus.’ However, before Plath’s death, beginning in October 1962, How many poems Plath wrote that would be published posthumously in the collection Ariel?
A:) 25
B:) 26
C:) 28
D:) 27
springline- Correct option: B:) 26
3. Daddy; employs controversial metaphors of the Holocaust to explain Plath's complex relationship with her father, Otto Plath, who died shortly after her eighth birthday as a result of undiagnosed ______?
A:) lung disorder
B:) heart attack
C:) mental disorder
D:) diabetes
springline- Correct option: D:) diabetes
4. Daddy; Before her publication of Ariel, Plath had been a high academic achiever attending Cambridge University in England. It was at Cambridge University where she met Ted Hughes, a young Yorkshire poet, and they wed in the summer of ______?
A:) April 1956
B:) May 1956
C:) June 1956
D:) October 1956
springline- Correct option: C:) June 1956
5. Daddy After her separation from Hughes, Plath moved with her two children into a flat in London during December 1962 and where ‘Daddy’ was written. Shortly after, Plath died by suicide by consumption of sleeping pills and gas inhalation by putting her head in a gas oven on ______?
A:) October 12, 1963
B:) February 11, 1963
C:) March 12, 1963
D:) May 11, 1963
springline- Correct option: B:) February 11, 1963
6. In these Plath wrote about anger, including macabre humor, and resistance in ‘Daddy.’ Yet at the same time, she contrasted those dark subject matters with themes of joy, in hand with a deeper understanding of the numerous hindering functions of women. ‘Daddy’ included humor and realistic subject matter that would, later on, be known as the_________?
A:) November Poems
B:) September poems
C:) October poems
D:) Spring poems
springline- Correct option: C:) October poems
7. The ‘October poems’ were composed of Plath’s anger as a woman who felt oppressed by her parents' expectations of her, society’s hindering roles in place for women, and by her ex-husband’s unfaithfulness. Plath wrote the poem in quintains with irregular meter and irregular rhyme. The rhyming words all end with an ________?
A:) oo
B:) ee
C:) es
D:) ly
springline- Correct option: A:) oo
8. Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Daddy’ had very dark tones and imagery including death and suicide, in addition to the Holocaust. Plath wrote about her father's death that occurred when she was eight years old and of her ongoing battle trying to free herself from her father. What is the name of her father?
A:) Aurelia Plath
B:) Otto Plath
C:) Jamaica Plath
D:) Boston Herald
springline- Correct option: B:) Otto Plath
9. Initially in ‘Daddy,’ Plath idolizes her father, going as far as to compare him to God. However, as her poem progresses she, later compares him to a swastika and what it symbolizes. Plath alludes to her father being a Nazi soldier and in contrast, compares herself to a _______?
A:) Jewish prisoner
B:) Nazi prisoner
C:) Germany prisoner
D:) house prisoner
springline- Correct option: A:) Jewish prisoner
10. The metaphor Plath employed is a means of expressing her relationship with her father. Plath ultimately had feared her father and was terrified of him as those who were Jewish were terrified of the Nazi soldiers. She includes various references to the masses brutally murdered by _______?
A:) Nazi
B:) Jew
C:) Otto Plath
D:) the Holocaust
springline- Correct option: D:) the Holocaust
11. Initially in ‘Daddy,’ Plath idolizes her father, going as far as to compare him to God. However, as her poem progresses she, later compares him to a swastika and what it symbolizes She ends the by alluding to her marriage as a continuation of her trauma bond with her father and calling her father a _______?
A:) Villain
B:) vampire
C:) Hero
D:) Anti- Hero
springline- Correct option: B:) vampire
12. Some critics have interpreted ‘Daddy’ in both biographical and psychoanalytic terms. For instance, Who wrote, ‘Finally the one way [Plath] was to achieve relief, to become an independent Self, was to kill her father's memory, which, in 'Daddy,' she does by a metaphorical murder?
A:) Dylan Thomas
B:) Robin Morgan
C:) Assia Wevill
D:) Robert Phillips
springline- Correct option: D:) Robert Phillips
13. From its opening image onward, that of the father as an ‘old shoe’ in which the daughter has lived for thirty years—an explicitly phallic image, according to the writings of Whom—the sexual pull and tug is manifest, as is the degree of Plath's mental suffering, supported by references to Dachau, Auschwitz, and Belsen’ ?
A:) Harold Bloom
B:) I.A. Richard
C:) Sigmund Freud
D:) Harold Pinter
springline- Correct option: C:) Sigmund Freud
14. Critics writers Guinevara A. Nance and Judith P. Jones take the same approach of psychoanalyzing Plath via ‘Daddy.’ They essentially make the same argument as Phillips as they also write that ‘[Plath] accentuates linguistically the speaker's reliving of her childhood. Using the heavy cadences of nursery rhyme and baby words such as 'chuffing,' 'achoo,' and 'gobbledygoo,' she employs a technical device similar to Whom?
A:) W.B. Yeats
B:) Samuel Beckett
C:) Virginia Woolf
D:) James Joyce
springline- Correct option: D:) James Joyce
15. The lecturer of English Literature at the University of Amsterdam and Wh6 argues the poem could be interpreted additionally as a break-up letter. In some verses of the poem and Who mentions ‘Daddy’ addresses another person aside from Plath and her father ?
A:) Nora Barnacle
B:) Stanislaus Joyce
C:) Rudolph Glitz
D:) Ernest Hemingway
springline- Correct option: C:) Rudolph Glitz
16. The line, ‘the vampire who said he was you’ Glitz argues is referencing Plath’s estranged husband, Ted Hughes. Further suggested by the line in which Plath wrote ‘I do, I do’ in and the ‘seven years’ the vampire had drunk Plath’s blood. Plath was married to Ted Hughes for _____?
A:) seven years
B:) Six years
C:) five years
D:) Eight years
springline- Correct option: A:) seven years
17. In the very last lines of the poem, the vampire figure merges with Plath’s father, ‘Daddy.’ Plath also writes before this merge, the ‘black phone’ has been disconnected so that the ‘voices’ could not ‘worm through,’ which Glitz also connects to Plath's discovery of Hughes's affair when Plath answered a telephone call from ________?
A:) Hughes
B:) Hughes's lover
C:) Father
D:) Friend
springline- Correct option: B:) Hughes's lover
18. In The Poetics of Torture: The Spectacle of Sylvia Plath's Poetry’ displayed how several of Plath's most famous poems, including ‘Daddy,’ portrayed the female figure in opposition to male authority. Who argued the objectified female form had been previously displayed was now confronting and renouncing the oppressive and social as well as cultural norms that dehumanized women ?
A:) Emily Dickenson
B:) Narbeshuber
C:) Anne Sexton
D:) Robert Lowell
springline- Correct option: B:) Narbeshuber
19. The rebellious speaker in ‘Daddy’ made the invisible visible and the private-public. Plath dramatized her imprisonment and fantasized about defeating her tormentors through the means of killing them. Plath identified with the persecuted Jews, the marginalized and the hidden, as her body had been stolen from her and divided into articles belonging to the ________?
A:) Nazis
B:) Army
C:) Jew
D:) America
springline- Correct option: A:) Nazis
20. Who referred to ‘Daddy’ as ‘the Guernica of modern poetry’, arguing that it ‘achieves the classic art of generalization, translating a private, obviously intolerable hurt into a code of plain statement, of instantaneously public images which concern us all ?
A:) Dylan Thomas
B:) George Steiner
C:) James Joyce
D:) George Peter
springline- Correct option: B:) George Steiner
21. Who has written that some of Plath's works, like ‘Daddy’, are self-mythologizing and suggests that readers should not interpret the poem as a strictly ‘confessional’, autobiographical poem about her actual father. Sylvia Plath herself also did not describe the poem in autobiographical terms ?
A:) Boston Herald
B:) W.S. Merwin
C:) Adam Kirsch
D:) David Wevill
springline- Correct option: C:) Adam Kirsch
22. Who wrote the essay, ‘‘This Holocaust I Walk In’: Consuming Violence in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry’ where she stated that ‘Daddy’ was an example of the fall of violent authoritative control over Plath’s body?
A:) Jacqueline Shea Murphy
B:) Sigmund Freud
C:) John Horder
D:) James Joyce
springline- Correct option: A:) Jacqueline Shea Murphy
23. The speaker of ‘Daddy,’ moved from the position of the oppressed to the position of the oppressor. The oppressed in ‘Daddy’ being the Jewish people due to their torment in the death camps. The oppressor was one capable of killing as well as committing the torment. ‘Daddy, I have had to kill you,’ said the speaker who ‘maybe a bit of a Jew’ and Her Daddy was a _____ ?
A:) Catholic
B:) Nazi
C:) Army man
D:) Jew
springline- Correct option: B:) Nazi
24. Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as Which is her semi-autobiographical novel ?
A:) The Bell Jar
B:) Double Explore
C:) Ariel
D:) Winter Trees
springline- Correct option: A:) The Bell Jar
25. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). She killed herself in 1963.The Collected Poems were published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection, When she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in _____?
A:) 1981
B:) 1982
C:) 1983
D:) 1984
springline- Correct option: B:) 1982
26. Sylvia Plath Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath studied at Smith College in Massachusetts and at Newnham College in Cambridge, England. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. Their relationship was tumultuous and, in her letters, Plath alleges abuse at his hands. They had two children before separating in_____?
A:) 1960
B:) 1961
C:) 1962
D:) 1963
springline- Correct option: C:) 1962
27. Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath (1906–1994), was a second-generation American of Austrian descent, and her father, Otto Plath (1885–1940), was from Grabow, Germany. Plath's father was an entomologist and a professor of biology at Boston University who authored a book about _______ ?
A:) The Bed book
B:) The Magic Mirror
C:) Faber and Faber
D:) Bumblebees
springline- Correct option: D:) Bumblebees
28. Plath wrote poetry from the age of eight, her first poem appearing in the Boston Traveller. By the time she arrived at Smith College she had written short stories . How many short stories she had written this time?
A:) 15
B:) 35
C:) 50
D:) 55
springline- Correct option: C:) 50
29. The posthumous publication of Ariel in 1965 precipitated Plath's rise to fame. The poems in Ariel mark a departure from her earlier work into a more personal arena of poetry. Robert Lowell's poetry may have played a part in this shift as she cited Lowell's 1959 book Life Studies as a significant influence, in an interview just before her death. Who was Plath’s Close friend ?
A:) Al Alvarez
B:) Emma Lazarus
C:) Frieda
D:) Anne Sexton
springline- Correct option: A:) Al Alvarez
30. Sylvia Plath's early poems exhibit what became her typical imagery, using personal and nature-based depictions featuring, for example, the moon, blood, hospitals, fetuses, and skulls. They were mostly imitation exercises of poets she admired such as Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore and__________?
A:) Robert Lowell
B:) W. B. Yeats
C:) Robert Frost
D:) Walter Whitman
springline- Correct option: B:) W. B. Yeats