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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. 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.

2. When did Sylvia Plath die?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1969.

3. Where was A. Alvarez born?
(a) El Salvador.
(b) Spain.
(c) England.
(d) Mexico.

4. What literary genre emphasizes the intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet's personal life, such as in poems about mental illness, sexuality, and despondence?
(a) Sinful poetry.
(b) Truthful poetry.
(c) Realistic poetry.
(d) Confessional poetry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?

2. Whom had the second installment of The Savage God pulled from the Observer?

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

4. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?

5. In 1952, William Stanley Merwin's first book of poetry was published under what title?

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