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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Death Notebooks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the time frame in which the poems of Live or Die were written?
(a) 1960-1962.
(b) 1962-1966.
(c) 1960-1965.
(d) 1958-1962.

2. Who does the author decide to endure the pains of life for in the last poem in Live or Die?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her poetry.
(c) The people she loves most.
(d) Her parents.

3. Who is the subject of "Somewhere in Africa"?
(a) John Holmes.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) T. S. Eliot.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

4. In what year were the letters written that inspired "Walking in Paris"?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1910.

5. What is the focus of the author's version of "Red Riding Hood"?
(a) The improbability of the outcome.
(b) The relationship between Red Riding Hood and the woodsman.
(c) The wolf.
(d) The grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Biblical story is retold in "Jesus Walking"?

2. "Hansel and Gretel" is about whose wild obsession?

3. Where does the title for the first poem in Live or Die come from?

4. What is the tone of "Sylvia's Death"?

5. Where do the poems come from in Transformations?

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