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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. In the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes commented how in the last several years of her life, Sylvia had found ______________.
(a) Her true voice as a poet.
(b) Her lost journals.
(c) The perfect editor.
(d) Happiness.

2. What book by A. Alvarez about suicide gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath?
(a) The Savage God.
(b) Life after Marriage: Scenes from Divorce.
(c) School of Donne.
(d) Where Did It All Go Right.

3. What did Olwyn Hughes claim was something Sylvia's mother had never addressed and, in fact, enabled for years?
(a) Tooth decay.
(b) Mental illness.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Lack of exercise.

4. 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?
(a) Dido Milroy.
(b) Frances McCullough.
(c) Olwyn Hughes .
(d) Anne Stevenson.

5. Where did Anne Stevenson move after college and marrying?
(a) Canada.
(b) England.
(c) Spain.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?

2. When Anne Stevenson wrote her biography of Sylvia Plath, she found that she and Sylvia had gone through the same teen-aged angst and sexual frustrations of the American youth of what era?

3. When was Bitter Fame published?

4. In her biography of Sylvia Plath, Stevenson writes of Plath as a sober and confused perfectionist whose suicide as well as the inspiration for her art remain ___________.

5. Who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems?

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