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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 The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, it left many thinking that the words and spirit of Sylvia had been ___________.
(a) Repressed.
(b) Remembered.
(c) Lies.
(d) Immortalized.

2. With whom was Ted Hughes having an affair at the time of Sylvia Plath's death?
(a) Charles Stevenson.
(b) Frances McCullough.
(c) Assia Wevill.
(d) Janet Malcolm.

3. How long had Anne Stevenson worked on her biography of Sylvia Plath before it was published?
(a) Four years.
(b) Five years.
(c) One year.
(d) Two years.

4. Where did Janet Malcolm travel to meet with Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter I?
(a) Helmsley, England.
(b) Shirebrook, England.
(c) Beaconsfield, England.
(d) Durham, England.

5. When was Anne Stevenson's book Correspondences: A Family History in Letters published?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1978.

Short Answer Questions

1. A. Alvarez claimed that Sylvia Plath did not intend __________.

2. How many years of hell did Ted Hughes go through after Sylvia's death, according to Anne Stevenson in Part Two: Chapter IV?

3. Ted Hughes was the British Poet Laureate beginning in what year?

4. The Bell Jar is based in part on Plath's own life and, in particular, her suicide attempt in what year?

5. What was the name of Sylvia Plath's mother?

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