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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 the book The Colossus and Other Poems first published?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1960.

2. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?
(a) A. Alvarez's.
(b) Ronald Hayman's.
(c) Janet Malcolm's.
(d) Anne Stevenson's.

3. From 1956 to 1966, A. Alvarez was the poetry editor and critic for what publication?
(a) The Analyst.
(b) The Observer.
(c) The Insider.
(d) The Reporter.

4. When was Janet Malcolm born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1934.

5. 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) Her lost journals.
(c) The perfect editor.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Anne Stevenson born?

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

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

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

5. How many words did Ted Hughes cut from Linda Wagner-Martin's manuscript?

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