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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 reprinting of letters, in which Sylvia wrote to her mother and which displayed her nice daughter side, was published by Plath's mother?
(a) A Loving Correspondence.
(b) Love, Sylvia.
(c) A Daughter Far Away.
(d) Letters Home.

2. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Personal relationships.
(b) Religion.
(c) False selves.
(d) Prejudices.

3. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?
(a) Time Magazine.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Rolling Stone.
(d) Newsweek.

4. What was the title of Ted Hughes' last work?
(a) Flowers and Insects.
(b) Wolfwatching.
(c) The Hawk in the Rain.
(d) Birthday Letters.

5. Olwyn Hughes promised to get Anne Stevenson an agent and publisher who would provide what resource?
(a) Printing presses.
(b) Advertising.
(c) An editor.
(d) A sizeable advance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anne Stevenson's early days in England were much like Sylvia's because neither woman was prepared for __________.

2. Alvarez responded to Ted Hughes in letters that his work was honest and not one of _____________.

3. When did Ted Hughes die?

4. The man whom Sylvia Plath was dating when she met Ted Hughes did not return her _____________.

5. What poet and playwright had previously lived at the residence where Sylvia Plath committed suicide?

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