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25+ MCQs on Anne Sexton with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration

1. When was Anne Sexton born?
a) 1910
b) 1928
c) 1932
d) 1940

2. Anne Sexton’s poetry is often associated with which literary movement?
a) Romanticism
b) Transcendentalism
c) Confessional poetry
d) Beat Generation

3. What was the title of Anne Sexton’s debut poetry collection, published in 1960?
a) “Live or Die”
b) “To Bedlam and Part Way Back”
c) “Transformations”
d) “All My Pretty Ones”

4. What significant event in Sexton’s life prompted her to start writing poetry?
a) Her divorce
b) Her marriage
c) Her mother’s death
d) Her daughter’s birth

5. Which of Anne Sexton’s poems won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967?
a) “Her Kind”
b) “Live or Die”
c) “All My Pretty Ones”
d) “Transformations”

6. In which literary journal did Anne Sexton’s poems often appear?
a) The Paris Review
b) The New Yorker
c) Poetry Magazine
d) Harper’s Magazine

7. What was the title of Anne Sexton’s final poetry collection, published posthumously in 1975?
a) “Live or Die”
b) “The Awful Rowing Toward God”
c) “Transformations”
d) “Love Poems”

8. Which poet was a close friend and mentor to Anne Sexton?
a) Sylvia Plath
b) Robert Lowell
c) Ted Hughes
d) Adrienne Rich

9. What was the cause of Anne Sexton’s death?
a) Cancer
b) Suicide
c) Drug overdose
d) Heart attack

10. Anne Sexton’s poetry is known for its:
a) Lightheartedness
b) Surrealism
c) Confessional tone
d) Formal structure

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11. Which of Anne Sexton’s poems is a series of confessional sonnets about her struggles with mental illness?
a) “Her Kind”
b) “The Truth the Dead Know”
c) “Live or Die”
d) “All My Pretty Ones”

12. What literary device did Anne Sexton often use in her poetry to convey intense personal emotion?
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Imagery
d) Repetition

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13. What was the title of Anne Sexton’s only novel, published in 1974?
a) “Transformations”
b) “The Death Notebooks”
c) “Live or Die”
d) “Mercy Street”

14. Anne Sexton’s poetry often explores themes of:
a) Nature and the environment
b) Love and relationships
c) Political activism
d) Mythology and fairy tales

15. Which of Anne Sexton’s poems is a retelling of Grimm’s fairy tales in a contemporary context?
a) “Her Kind”
b) “Transformations”
c) “All My Pretty Ones”
d) “The Truth the Dead Know”

16. In what year did Anne Sexton publish her second poetry collection, “All My Pretty Ones”?
a) 1959
b) 1960
c) 1962
d) 1965

17. What was the title of Anne Sexton’s first poetry collection to win critical acclaim?
a) “To Bedlam and Part Way Back”
b) “Live or Die”
c) “All My Pretty Ones”
d) “Transformations”

18. Anne Sexton’s poetry often explores themes related to:
a) Religion and spirituality
b) War and conflict
c) Environmental conservation
d) Economic inequality

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19. Which poet was known to have a collaborative and competitive relationship with Anne Sexton?
a) Sylvia Plath
b) Robert Lowell
c) Ted Hughes
d) Adrienne Rich

20. What was the title of Anne Sexton’s first poetry collection to be published?
a) “Transformations”
b) “Live or Die”
c) “To Bedlam and Part Way Back”
d) “All My Pretty Ones”

21. Which of Anne Sexton’s poems is a meditation on death and the afterlife?
a) “Her Kind”
b) “The Truth the Dead Know”
c) “Live or Die”
d) “All My Pretty Ones”

22. What was the title of Anne Sexton’s first posthumous poetry collection, published in 1977?
a) “The Awful Rowing Toward God”
b) “Transformations”
c) “Live or Die”
d) “Love Poems”

23. What was the title of Anne Sexton’s most famous poem about the complexities of being a woman?
a) “Her Kind”
b) “The Truth the Dead Know”
c) “Live or Die”
d) “All My Pretty Ones”

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24. Which of Anne Sexton’s poems is a series of dramatic monologues based on characters from mythology?
a) “Her Kind”
b) “Transformations”
c) “The Truth the Dead Know”
d) “All My Pretty Ones”

25. Anne Sexton was known for her:
a) Experimental use of language
b) Traditional poetic forms
c) Satirical tone
d) Political activism

Answers

1. c) 1932
2. c) Confessional poetry
3. b) “To Bedlam and Part Way Back”
4. b) Robert Lowell
5. d) “Transformations”
6. a) The Paris Review
7. b) “The Awful Rowing Toward God”
8. a) Sylvia Plath
9. b) Suicide
10. c) Confessional tone
11. d) “All My Pretty Ones”
12. c) Imagery
13. d) “Mercy Street”
14. b) Love and relationships
15. b) “Transformations”
16. c) 1962
17. a) “To Bedlam and Part Way Back”
18. a) Religion and spirituality
19. a) Sylvia Plath
20. c) “To Bedlam and Part Way Back”
21. b) “The Truth the Dead Know”
22. a) “The Awful Rowing Toward God”
23. a) “Her Kind”
24. b) “Transformations”
25. a) Experimental use of language