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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. When was Ronald Hayman born?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1932.

2. To A. Alvarez, Anne Stevenson was a minor writer writing about a major writer and thus there was natural ____________.
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Envy.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Cautiousness.

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

4. Ted Hughes was the British Poet Laureate beginning in what year?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1981.

5. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?
(a) Ronald Hayman.
(b) A. Alvarez.
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) Ted Hughes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of Ted Hughes' last work?

2. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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