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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 did Ted Hughes die?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1997.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1998.

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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) Completion of the manuscript.
(b) The publishing of the book.
(c) Reviews of the book being published.
(d) Choosing a cover for the book.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what meeting had Anne Stevenson appeared to speak in Part Two: Chapter I?

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

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

4. 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.

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

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