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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 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?
(a) 1940's.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1930's.
(d) 1920's.

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

3. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?
(a) Janet Malcolm.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Frances McCullough.

4. Who was the consulting editor on The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Assia Wevill.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Frances McCullough.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were separated by the fall of what year?

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

3. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?

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

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

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