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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. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?
(a) Milk and cookies.
(b) Bread and milk.
(c) Their backpacks.
(d) A note.

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

3. 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) Reviews of the book being published.
(c) Choosing a cover for the book.
(d) The publishing of the book.

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

5. How many words did Ted Hughes cut from Linda Wagner-Martin's manuscript?
(a) 11,000.
(b) 1,800.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 3,700.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Anne Stevenson born?

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

3. When was Janet Malcolm born?

4. In the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes commented how in the last several years of her life, Sylvia had found ______________.

5. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?

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