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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. What was the name of Sylvia Plath's mother?
(a) Jennifer Wilma Plath.
(b) Emma Rachel Plath.
(c) Susan Mary Plath.
(d) Aurelia Schobert Plath.

2. How many words did Ted Hughes cut from Linda Wagner-Martin's manuscript?
(a) 3,700.
(b) 11,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 1,800.

3. Whom had the second installment of The Savage God pulled from the Observer?
(a) A. Alvarez.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Anne Stevenson.
(d) Ted Hughes.

4. What reprinting of letters, in which Sylvia wrote to her mother and which displayed her nice daughter side, was published by Plath's mother?
(a) A Loving Correspondence.
(b) A Daughter Far Away.
(c) Love, Sylvia.
(d) Letters Home.

5. How old was Ted Hughes when Sylvia Plath died?
(a) 39.
(b) 29.
(c) 41.
(d) 32.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many children did Sylvia Plath have?

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

4. In the second version of The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Hughes indicated that he might be able to get his hands on what?

5. When did Sylvia Plath die?

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