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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. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes avoided blame for what?
(a) The destruction of Plath's journals.
(b) Plath's unhappiness.
(c) Plath's death.
(d) Incomplete editing.

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

3. What "friend" of Plath finally felt the freedom to express her true feelings for the poet by relating that she was a horrible wife and a martyr?
(a) Frances McCullough.
(b) Dido Milroy.
(c) Olwyn Hughes .
(d) Anne Stevenson.

4. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were separated by the fall of what year?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1964.

5. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) Rolling Stone.
(d) Time Magazine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sylvia Plath commit suicide?

2. How old was Ted Hughes when Sylvia Plath died?

3. A. Alvarez claimed that Sylvia Plath did not intend __________.

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. What did Olwyn Hughes claim was something Sylvia's mother had never addressed and, in fact, enabled for years?

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