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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. Who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Linda Wagner-Martin.

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

3. When did Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1960.

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

5. When did the bomb drop on Hiroshima?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1947.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Bitter Fame published?

2. In her biography of Sylvia Plath, Stevenson writes of Plath as a sober and confused perfectionist whose suicide as well as the inspiration for her art remain ___________.

3. Linda Wagner-Martin wrote a biography of Sylvia Plath. Upon what did her relationship with the Hughes family deteriorate in Part One: Chapter IV?

4. What book by A. Alvarez about suicide gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath?

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

(see the answer key)

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