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I'm Four Years Old

Today Sylvia Plath Info Blog is four years old. In blog years, that is about 80 - which is half as old as Joan Rivers. With that - and I have been thinking about this a long time - I have done a redesign of the blog, which I hope you all like!

Here are some trivia questions for you to consider. The answers will be posted in a few days.

In the fall of 1954, during the first semester of her senior year at Smith College, which charitable activity did Sylvia Plath do?

A. Pick up trash on Green Street
B. Tutor extraterrestrial creatures in the theory of haiku
C. Hold open church doors Sunday’s
D. Read aloud to a dear old blind man
E. Fly kites on behalf of handicap children
F. Grade freshwomen German assignments
G. Plant excitable tulips
H. Assist the college librarian in tracking down overdue books
I. Help police and boy scouts search for missing 20 year olds
J. Skim Paradise Pond of algae
K. Crochet blankets for cold local grandmothers
L. Start a petition to force Smith to go co-ed
M. Give blood
N. None of the above, she was too selfish

To whom did she write of this activity?

A. Mike Lotz
B. Gordon Lameyer
C. Richard Sassoon
D. Her mother
E. Ann Davidow
F. Adlai Stevenson

How much money did Sylvia Plath lose playing roulette in Monte Carlo during her winter break from Cambridge in December 1955/January 1956?

A. $1
B. $2
C. $3
D. $4

Who did Sylvia Plath credit in a letter for the title of her poem “Circus in Three Rings”?

A. John Hodges
B. Nancy Hunter
C. Edward Weeks
D. Gordon Lameyer
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