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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a letter from Ted Hughes, Alvarez was excoriated for publicly airing the details of what event in his memoirs?
(a) Sylvia's suicide.
(b) Sylvia's marriage to Hughes.
(c) Sylvia's childhood.
(d) Ted's affair.

2. A. Alvarez claimed to have thought that Bitter Fame was an example of ___________.
(a) "Female bitchiness."
(b) "Writers block."
(c) "Psychodrama."
(d) "Fiction."

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

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

5. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?
(a) Dr. Hollingsworth.
(b) Dr. Hefner.
(c) Dr. Holiday.
(d) Dr. Horder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ted Hughes was the British Poet Laureate beginning in what year?

2. To A. Alvarez, Anne Stevenson was a minor writer writing about a major writer and thus there was natural ____________.

3. Olwyn Hughes gave Anne Stevenson whose account that was unflattering to Sylvia to review in Part Two: Chapter I?

4. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?

5. What university did Sylvia Plath attend in England?

(see the answer key)

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