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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapters V and VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Zero.

2. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes avoided blame for what?
(a) The destruction of Plath's journals.
(b) Plath's unhappiness.
(c) Incomplete editing.
(d) Plath's death.

3. Under what pseudonym was The Bell Jar originally published?
(a) Johanna Mills.
(b) Melissa Bouvier.
(c) Cassandra Owens.
(d) Victoria Lucas.

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

5. For what magazine is Janet Malcolm on staff?
(a) Newsweek.
(b) Time Magazine.
(c) Rolling Stone.
(d) The New Yorker.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Ronald Hayman born?

2. In her biography of Sylvia Plath, Stevenson writes of Plath as a sober and confused perfectionist whose suicide as well as the inspiration for her art remain ___________.

3. What university did Janet Malcolm attend?

4. Where did Anne Stevenson move after college and marrying?

5. Where was A. Alvarez born?

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