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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. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?
(a) Anne Stevenson's.
(b) Janet Malcolm's.
(c) A. Alvarez's.
(d) Ronald Hayman's.

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

3. What book did A. Alvarez write on the subject of divorce?
(a) Where Did It All Go Right?
(b) Day of Atonement.
(c) Life After Marriage.
(d) Beyond All This Fiddle.

4. Anne Stevenson began a lecture describing how her and Sylvia's background as well as ideology were similar, and they had both married _________.
(a) Englishmen.
(b) Adulterers.
(c) Incorrectly.
(d) Hastily.

5. At what meeting had Anne Stevenson appeared to speak in Part Two: Chapter I?
(a) The Girl Scouts.
(b) The 4H Club.
(c) A town hall meeting.
(d) The University Women's Club.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?

2. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.

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

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

5. When did Ted Hughes die?

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