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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom was Ted Hughes having an affair at the time of Sylvia Plath's death?
(a) Charles Stevenson.
(b) Assia Wevill.
(c) Janet Malcolm.
(d) Frances McCullough.

2. Who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems?
(a) A. Alvarez.
(b) Linda Wagner-Martin.
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

3. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?
(a) A. Alvarez's.
(b) Anne Stevenson's.
(c) Janet Malcolm's.
(d) Ted Hughes'.

4. How old was Ted Hughes when Sylvia Plath died?
(a) 29.
(b) 39.
(c) 32.
(d) 41.

5. When was A. Alvarez born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Anne Stevenson viewed by the author and her peers while at the university?

2. When did Sylvia Plath die?

3. What "friend" of Plath finally felt the freedom to express her true feelings for the poet by relating that she was a horrible wife and a martyr?

4. Where was A. Alvarez born?

5. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?

(see the answer key)

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