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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 "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?
(a) Anne Stevenson.
(b) Olwyn Hughes .
(c) Dido Milroy.
(d) Frances McCullough.

2. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?
(a) Newsweek.
(b) Time Magazine.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Rolling Stone.

3. When Anne Stevenson wrote her biography of Sylvia Plath, she found that she and Sylvia had gone through the same teen-aged angst and sexual frustrations of the American youth of what era?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1930's.
(c) 1940's.
(d) 1920's.

4. In the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes commented how in the last several years of her life, Sylvia had found ______________.
(a) Her lost journals.
(b) The perfect editor.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Her true voice as a poet.

5. The long and confused letter Janet Malcolm received from Olwyn in response in Part One: Chapter IV only reiterated her disdain for ____________.
(a) The Hughes family.
(b) The Sylvia Plath myth.
(c) The postal service.
(d) Ted Hughes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?

2. When did Sylvia Plath die?

3. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?

4. Janet Malcolm wrote to Olwyn Hughes in an effort to get an interview with whom in Part One: Chapter IV?

5. To what friend of the Hughes was William Stanley Merwin married?

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