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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 literary genre emphasizes the intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet's personal life, such as in poems about mental illness, sexuality, and despondence?
(a) Truthful poetry.
(b) Confessional poetry.
(c) Sinful poetry.
(d) Realistic poetry.

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

3. Sylvia Plath met Ted Hughes during her last year at which school?
(a) Smith College.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Dartmouth College.
(d) Brown University.

4. 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 death.
(c) Incomplete editing.
(d) Plath's unhappiness.

5. Immediately after Sylvia's suicide, whom did Elizabeth Sigmund blame?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) Olwyn Hughes.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Clarissa Roche.

Short Answer Questions

1. Elizabeth Sigmund was friends with Sylvia Plath for how long?

2. Where did A. Alvarez publish the first "official" bad review of Bitter Fame?

3. Who witnessed Sylvia weeping over Ted's infidelity, claiming that she had given her whole heart to Ted and couldn't get it back?

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

5. A. Alvarez was initially much more impressed with Ted--thinking of Sylvia as __________.

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