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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 Sylvia Plath born?
(a) Vermont.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Maine.
(d) Rhode Island.

2. When was Ronald Hayman born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1929.

3. Where did A. Alvarez publish the first "official" bad review of Bitter Fame?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) Literature Weekly.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The New York Review of Books.

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

5. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?
(a) Dr. Hollingsworth.
(b) Dr. Horder.
(c) Dr. Holiday.
(d) Dr. Hefner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who edited The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

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

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

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

5. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.

(see the answer key)

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