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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. What editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath was criticized for her own omission of some works?
(a) Amanda Reynolds.
(b) Helen Barry.
(c) Frances McCullough.
(d) Roberta Jefferies.

2. How did Assia Wevill die?
(a) She was hit by a car.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) She gassed herself.
(d) Cancer.

3. Whom had the second installment of The Savage God pulled from the Observer?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) A. Alvarez.

4. Anne Stevenson tried to defend herself in her speech in Part Two: Chapter I by explaining that some of her work was tainted by the controlling hands of whom?
(a) Clarissa Roche.
(b) Aurelia Plath.
(c) Olwyn Hughes.
(d) Ted Hughes.

5. When was A. Alvarez born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?

3. A. Alvarez claimed that Olwyn and Ted Hughes probably chose Anne Stevenson to write a biography on Sylvia because they could ______________.

4. Janet Malcolm wrote to Olwyn Hughes in an effort to get an interview with whom in Part One: Chapter IV?

5. How many children did Assia Wevill have with Ted Hughes?

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