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

2. A. Alvarez claimed that Sylvia Plath did not intend __________.
(a) To get divorced.
(b) To write a best seller.
(c) To be famous.
(d) To kill herself.

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

4. When was the publication date of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1982.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics was the father of Anne Stevenson?

2. What did Hughes claim Sylvia had discarded during the last years of her life in the first publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath?

3. Olwyn didn't write her own book because she wasn't a writer and, as Ted told her, no one would have ________.

4. When did Sylvia Plath die?

5. Where was Sylvia Plath born?

(see the answer key)

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