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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. Sylvia's failed confrontation with whom in Paris comprised the most interesting and least tampered with entries of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Olwyn Hughes.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) Richard Sassoon.
(d) Elizabeth Bishop.

2. What did Elizabeth Sigmund portray Olwyn Hughes as being envious of in her interview with Malcolm?
(a) Sylvia's love from Ted.
(b) Sylvia's talent and beauty.
(c) Sylvia's compassion and depth.
(d) Sylvia's money.

3. Toward the end of her life, according to Alvarez, Sylvia Plath developed a problem with ___________.
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Animals.
(c) Hygiene.
(d) Fear.

4. In a letter from Ted Hughes, Alvarez was excoriated for publicly airing the details of what event in his memoirs?
(a) Sylvia's suicide.
(b) Sylvia's marriage to Hughes.
(c) Sylvia's childhood.
(d) Ted's affair.

5. When was the novel The Bell Jar first published under Sylvia Plath's name?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1962.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the biography Bitter Fame?

2. Malcolm drew a parallel between Anne Stevenson's failed relationship and her guilt-ridden past to the subservient role she took on with whom?

3. When was A. Alvarez born?

4. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were separated by the fall of what year?

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

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