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

2. What university had Sylvia Plath attended?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Dartmouth College.
(d) Smith College.

3. Who applauded Wagner-Martin for not caving to the demands of the "evil" sister as Anne Stevenson had done?
(a) Ronald Hayman.
(b) Anne Stevenson.
(c) A. Alvarez.
(d) Ted Hughes.

4. Whose memoir depicting Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes criticize relentlessly?
(a) A. Alvarez's.
(b) Janet Malcolm's.
(c) Anne Stevenson's.
(d) Ted Hughes'.

5. When was the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath released?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1987.

Short Answer Questions

1. A. Alvarez was initially much more impressed with Ted--thinking of Sylvia as __________.

2. When was Sylvia Plath born?

3. When was the book The Colossus and Other Poems first published?

4. From 1956 to 1966, A. Alvarez was the poetry editor and critic for what publication?

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

(see the answer key)

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