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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 "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) Anne Stevenson.
(c) Olwyn Hughes .
(d) Frances McCullough.

2. When did Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1959.

3. When was Sylvia Plath born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1924.

4. How was Anne Stevenson viewed by the author and her peers while at the university?
(a) She was detested.
(b) She was considered ignorant.
(c) She was untrusted.
(d) She was admired.

5. In 1952, William Stanley Merwin's first book of poetry was published under what title?
(a) A Hat for Harrold.
(b) A Mask for Janus.
(c) A Coat for Jamal.
(d) Glasses for Peter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the consulting editor on The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

2. 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 ___________.

3. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

4. Where did A. Alvarez publish the first "official" bad review of Bitter Fame?

5. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?

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