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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. Where was A. Alvarez born?
(a) England.
(b) Spain.
(c) Mexico.
(d) El Salvador.

2. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?
(a) Bread and milk.
(b) Milk and cookies.
(c) Their backpacks.
(d) A note.

3. When did the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church begin?
(a) 11th Century A.D.
(b) 14th Century A.D.
(c) 12th Century A.D.
(d) 13th Century A.D.

4. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?
(a) University of Michigan.
(b) University of Illinois.
(c) University of Idaho.
(d) University of Montana.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what friend of the Hughes was William Stanley Merwin married?

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

3. 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?

4. In the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes commented how in the last several years of her life, Sylvia had found ______________.

5. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?

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