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

2. What did Sylvia Plath leave for her children when they awoke the night she killed herself?
(a) A note.
(b) Their backpacks.
(c) Bread and milk.
(d) Milk and cookies.

3. When did Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1957.

4. Sylvia Plath told A. Alvarez of two previous suicide attempts--one in which she took an overdose of pills and another when she _____________.
(a) Attempted to hang herself.
(b) Almost drove off the road.
(c) Played Russian roulette.
(d) Cut her wrist.

5. When was Sylvia Plath born?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were separated by the fall of what year?

2. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?

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?

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

5. Where did A. Alvarez publish the first "official" bad review of Bitter Fame?

(see the answer key)

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