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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. When was the book The Colossus and Other Poems first published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1950.

2. How did Sylvia Plath commit suicide?
(a) She gassed herself.
(b) She shot herself.
(c) She hung herself.
(d) She overdosed.

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

4. When was Anne Stevenson born?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1935.

5. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Narcissism.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?

2. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?

3. With whom was Ted Hughes having an affair at the time of Sylvia Plath's death?

4. When was Janet Malcolm born?

5. Whom had the second installment of The Savage God pulled from the Observer?

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