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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 book did A. Alvarez write on the subject of divorce?
(a) Where Did It All Go Right?
(b) Day of Atonement.
(c) Life After Marriage.
(d) Beyond All This Fiddle.

2. In what year did Anne Stevenson write to Olwyn about never contacting her again?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1985.

3. In her youth, Sylvia was known for her American neatness and what color hair?
(a) Black.
(b) Brunette.
(c) Blonde.
(d) Auburn.

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

5. When was Ronald Hayman born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1934.

Short Answer Questions

1. There was always a close association between Sylvia's work and what?

2. When The Journals of Sylvia Plath were published, they were met with derision--first because of Ted's admission that he had done what?

3. Olwyn Hughes gave Anne Stevenson whose account that was unflattering to Sylvia to review in Part Two: Chapter I?

4. What "friend" of Plath finally felt the freedom to express her true feelings for the poet by relating that she was a horrible wife and a martyr?

5. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes avoided blame for what?

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