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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 biography mentioned a cloth beneath Sylvia's head as she inhaled the gas fumes and a testimonial statement by her doctor that she had been in a dire mental condition?
(a) The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath.
(b) Bitter Fame.
(c) Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness: A Biography.
(d) The Haunting of Sylvia Plath.

2. When did Assia Wevill die?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1970.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath defended her cuts as ___________ when publishing such raw material as journal entries?

2. Sylvia Plath's extremism and ________ were things that Anne Stevenson deplored.

3. The author writes that biographers love letters since they are the fossils of ___________.

4. In Part Two: Chapter II, Ted described the battle Sylvia had to get her short story published in what periodical?

5. Where did Janet Malcolm travel to meet with Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter I?

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