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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) Bread and milk.
(b) A note.
(c) Their backpacks.
(d) Milk and cookies.

2. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?
(a) Two.
(b) Zero.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

3. When was the publication date of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1985.

4. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Personal relationships.
(b) Religion.
(c) Prejudices.
(d) False selves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?

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

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

4. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?

5. When was Sylvia Plath born?

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