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

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

3. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?
(a) Reviews of the book being published.
(b) Choosing a cover for the book.
(c) The publishing of the book.
(d) Completion of the manuscript.

4. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.
(a) The postal service.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) The Sylvia Plath myth.
(d) The Hughes family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Olwyn Hughes claim was something Sylvia's mother had never addressed and, in fact, enabled for years?

2. A. Alvarez ended his interview with Malcolm in Part Two: Chapter VII by concluding that Ted could never accept the fact that Sylvia's life and death was ________ and he could do nothing to change that.

3. Olwyn Hughes promised to get Anne Stevenson an agent and publisher who would provide what resource?

4. Alvarez responded to Ted Hughes in letters that his work was honest and not one of _____________.

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

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