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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?
(a) University of Idaho.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) University of Montana.
(d) University of Illinois.

2. How did Sylvia Plath commit suicide?
(a) She hung herself.
(b) She shot herself.
(c) She gassed herself.
(d) She overdosed.

3. 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) Prejudices.
(b) Personal relationships.
(c) Religion.
(d) False selves.

4. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?
(a) Two.
(b) Zero.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

5. Where was Sylvia Plath born?
(a) Rhode Island.
(b) Maine.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Vermont.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath released?

2. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?

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

4. When was A. Alvarez born?

5. Where did A. Alvarez publish the first "official" bad review of Bitter Fame?

(see the answer key)

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