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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters VIII and IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To A. Alvarez, Anne Stevenson was a minor writer writing about a major writer and thus there was natural ____________.
(a) Cautiousness.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Envy.

3. When was Janet Malcolm born?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1937.

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

5. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?
(a) Anne Stevenson's.
(b) Ronald Hayman's.
(c) Janet Malcolm's.
(d) A. Alvarez's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The woman who had found the flat for the Hughes described in in Part One: Chapter VII recalled how Sylvia eschewed her suggestion to buy _____________.

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

4. What is the term used for a novel describing real life, behind a façade of fiction?

5. Olwyn Hughes gave Anne Stevenson whose account that was unflattering to Sylvia to review in Part Two: Chapter I?

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