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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. A. Alvarez was initially much more impressed with Ted--thinking of Sylvia as __________.
(a) A trophy wife.
(b) A literary genious.
(c) A dowdy little housewife.
(d) The perfect woman.

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

3. What university had Sylvia Plath attended?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Smith College.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Dartmouth College.

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

5. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?
(a) Janet Malcolm.
(b) Frances McCullough.
(c) Anne Stevenson's.
(d) A. Alvarez.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church begin?

2. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes indicated that he might be able to get his hands on what?

3. How was Anne Stevenson viewed by the author and her peers while at the university?

4. Janet Malcolm wrote to Olwyn Hughes in an effort to get an interview with whom in Part One: Chapter IV?

5. When was the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath released?

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