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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. How many words did Ted Hughes cut from Linda Wagner-Martin's manuscript?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 11,000.
(c) 3,700.
(d) 1,800.

2. What did Ted Hughes called Alvarez' assertion that there was a professional jealousy between him and Sylvia?
(a) Absurd.
(b) Accurate.
(c) Partially true.
(d) Unfounded.

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

4. Where did Olwyn Hughes work until after Sylvia Plath's death?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Prague.
(d) Munich.

5. Anne Stevenson tried to defend herself in her speech in Part Two: Chapter I by explaining that some of her work was tainted by the controlling hands of whom?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) Olwyn Hughes.
(c) Clarissa Roche.
(d) Aurelia Plath.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?

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

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

4. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?

5. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?

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