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

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

3. 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 true voice as a poet.
(b) Happiness.
(c) The perfect editor.
(d) Her lost journals.

4. How old was Ted Hughes when Sylvia Plath died?
(a) 32.
(b) 39.
(c) 29.
(d) 41.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?

2. In her biography of Sylvia Plath, Stevenson writes of Plath as a sober and confused perfectionist whose suicide as well as the inspiration for her art remain ___________.

3. When was Anne Stevenson born?

4. Ronald Hayman wrote in The Independent that whose biography was vindictive?

5. Sylvia Plath told A. Alvarez of two previous suicide attempts--one in which she took an overdose of pills and another when she _____________.

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