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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. How many words did Ted Hughes cut from Linda Wagner-Martin's manuscript?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 1,800.
(c) 11,000.
(d) 3,700.

2. Malcolm was surprised that Anne Stevenson confessed to having had a problem with what addiction?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Men.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Drug addiction.

3. What game had Elizabeth Sigmund played with Olwyn Hughes on a few occasions?
(a) Bridge.
(b) Badminton.
(c) Croquet.
(d) Poker.

4. Who wrote The Haunting of Sylvia Plath?
(a) Aurelia Plath.
(b) Jacqueline Rose.
(c) Janet Malcolm.
(d) A. Alvarez.

5. 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) Love, Sylvia.
(b) A Loving Correspondence.
(c) Letters Home.
(d) A Daughter Far Away.

Short Answer Questions

1. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.

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

3. What poem written by Sylvia Plath, originally collected in the posthumously published volume Ariel, describes the speaker's oppression with the use of World War II Nazi Germany allusions and images?

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

5. After she and Ted separated, Sylvia chose to stay in England because __________ was more accepted there.

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