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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 university did Sylvia Plath attend in England?
(a) Cambridge University.
(b) Exeter University.
(c) Rhodes University.
(d) Oxford University.

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

3. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?
(a) Anne Stevenson's.
(b) Janet Malcolm.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Frances McCullough.

4. Olwyn Hughes promised to get Anne Stevenson an agent and publisher who would provide what resource?
(a) Printing presses.
(b) Advertising.
(c) An editor.
(d) A sizeable advance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. In a letter from Ted Hughes, Alvarez was excoriated for publicly airing the details of what event in his memoirs?

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

4. In their interview in Part Two: Chapter I, Anne Stevenson told Malcolm of the hurt she felt when a critic had accused her of ___________.

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

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