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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was named the literary agent for the writings of Sylvia Plath after her death?
(a) Olwyn Hughes .
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) Janet Malcolm.
(d) Dido Milroy.

2. How did Sylvia Plath commit suicide?
(a) She shot herself.
(b) She hung herself.
(c) She overdosed.
(d) She gassed herself.

3. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?
(a) A note.
(b) Bread and milk.
(c) Their backpacks.
(d) Milk and cookies.

4. Whom had the second installment of The Savage God pulled from the Observer?
(a) A. Alvarez.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) Ted Hughes.

5. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?
(a) Janet Malcolm's.
(b) Anne Stevenson's.
(c) A. Alvarez's.
(d) Ronald Hayman's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did A. Alvarez publish the first "official" bad review of Bitter Fame?

2. How many words did Ted Hughes cut from Linda Wagner-Martin's manuscript?

3. What "friend" of Plath finally felt the freedom to express her true feelings for the poet by relating that she was a horrible wife and a martyr?

4. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?

5. What American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics was the father of Anne Stevenson?

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