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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. When was Bitter Fame published?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1993.

2. Who prescribed antidepressants for Plath a few days before her death?
(a) Dr. Hollingsworth.
(b) Dr. Hefner.
(c) Dr. Holiday.
(d) Dr. Horder.

3. What did Olwyn Hughes claim was something Sylvia's mother had never addressed and, in fact, enabled for years?
(a) Lack of exercise.
(b) Promiscuity.
(c) Tooth decay.
(d) Mental illness.

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

5. A. Alvarez was initially much more impressed with Ted--thinking of Sylvia as __________.
(a) A dowdy little housewife.
(b) A literary genious.
(c) A trophy wife.
(d) The perfect woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sylvia Plath commit suicide?

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

3. When was Sylvia Plath born?

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

5. What American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics was the father of Anne Stevenson?

(see the answer key)

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