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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapters V and VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Narcissism.

2. 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?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Olwyn Hughes .
(c) Dido Milroy.
(d) Frances McCullough.

3. When was the novel The Bell Jar first published under Sylvia Plath's name?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1970.

4. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes indicated that he might be able to get his hands on what?
(a) Love letters.
(b) A lost journal.
(c) The original manuscript.
(d) Additional material.

5. When was Bitter Fame published?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who edited The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

2. When Anne Stevenson wrote her biography of Sylvia Plath, she found that she and Sylvia had gone through the same teen-aged angst and sexual frustrations of the American youth of what era?

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

4. How was Anne Stevenson viewed by the author and her peers while at the university?

5. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?

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