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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters VIII and IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The man whom Sylvia Plath was dating when she met Ted Hughes did not return her _____________.
(a) Passion.
(b) Love of literature.
(c) Love of art.
(d) Mistrust of humanity.

2. What poems did Plath write for the most part in the two months after Ted had left Devon?
(a) Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices.
(b) The Colossus and Other Poems.
(c) Ariel.
(d) Winter Trees.

3. Where was A. Alvarez born?
(a) Mexico.
(b) El Salvador.
(c) England.
(d) Spain.

4. Janet Malcolm wrote to Olwyn Hughes in an effort to get an interview with whom in Part One: Chapter IV?
(a) Assia Wevill.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Anne Stevenson.

5. Who witnessed Sylvia weeping over Ted's infidelity, claiming that she had given her whole heart to Ted and couldn't get it back?
(a) Elizabeth Sigmund.
(b) Aurelia Plath.
(c) Clarissa Roche.
(d) Olwyn Hughes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?

2. When was the publication date of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

3. How old was Ted Hughes when Sylvia Plath died?

4. Whom had the second installment of The Savage God pulled from the Observer?

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

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