Statistics for "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath

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This quiz has been taken 12 times
The average score is 12 of 81

Answer Stats

Answer	% Correct
Any more, black shoe	80%
You do not do,	60%
You do not do	60%
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.	40%
I thought every German was you.	40%
Ach, du.	20%
A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.	20%
And a head in the freakish Atlantic	20%
And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack	20%
And the language obscene	20%
And your Aryan eye, bright blue.	20%
And your neat mustache	20%
An engine, an engine,	20%
Are not very pure or true.	20%
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.	20%
Big as a Frisco seal	20%
Brute heart of a brute like you.	20%
But the name of the town is common.	20%
Chuffing me off like a Jew.	20%
Daddy, I have had to kill you.	20%
Every woman adores a Fascist,	20%
For thirty years, poor and white,	20%
Ghastly statue with one gray toe	20%
I began to talk like a Jew.	20%
Ich, ich, ich, ich,	20%
I could hardly speak.	20%
I have always been scared of you,	20%
I may be a bit of a Jew.	20%
I never could talk to you.	20%
In the German tongue, in the Polish town	20%
In the picture I have of you,	20%
In which I have lived like a foot	20%
I think I may well be a Jew.	20%
I used to pray to recover you.	20%
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,	20%
My Polack friend	20%
Not God but a swastika	20%
Of wars, wars, wars.	20%
Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You---	20%
Put your foot, your root,	20%
Says there are a dozen or two.	20%
Scraped flat by the roller	20%
So black no sky could squeak through.	20%
So I never could tell where you	20%
The boot in the face, the brute	20%
The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna	20%
The tongue stuck in my jaw.	20%
Where it pours bean green over blue	20%
With my gypsy ancestress and my weird luck	20%
With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.	20%
You died before I had time---	20%
You stand at the blackboard, daddy,	20%
A cleft in your chin instead of your foot	0%
A man with a Meinkampf look	0%
And a love of the rack and the screw.	0%
And drank my blood for a year,	0%
And get back, back, back to you.	0%
And I said I do, I do.	0%
And then I knew what to do.	0%
And the villagers never liked you.	0%
And they stuck me together with glue.	0%
Any less the black man who	0%
At twenty I tried to die	0%
Bit my pretty heart in two.	0%
But no less a devil for that, no not	0%
But they pulled me out of the sack,	0%
Daddy, you can lie back now.	0%
If I've killed one man, I've killed two---	0%
I made a model of you,	0%
In the waters off the beautiful Nauset.	0%
I thought even the bones would do.	0%
It stuck like a barb wire snare.	0%
I was ten when they buried you.	0%
Seven years, if you want to know.	0%
So daddy, I'm finally through.	0%
The black telephone's off at the root,	0%
There's a stake in your fat black heart	0%
The vampire who said he was you	0%
The voices just can't worm through.	0%
They always knew it was you.	0%
They are dancing and stamping on you.	0%