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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 did Olwyn Hughes claim was something Sylvia's mother had never addressed and, in fact, enabled for years?
(a) Lack of exercise.
(b) Mental illness.
(c) Tooth decay.
(d) Promiscuity.

2. What is the term used for a novel describing real life, behind a façade of fiction?
(a) Biography.
(b) Nonfiction fiction.
(c) Autobiography.
(d) Roman a clef.

3. 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) Love, Sylvia.
(b) Letters Home.
(c) A Loving Correspondence.
(d) A Daughter Far Away.

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) Cut her wrist.
(c) Almost drove off the road.
(d) Played Russian roulette.

5. Whose biography of Sylvia Plath did Olwyn Hughes laud?
(a) Anne Stevenson's.
(b) A. Alvarez's.
(c) Janet Malcolm's.
(d) Ronald Hayman's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Janet Malcolm wrote to Olwyn Hughes in an effort to get an interview with whom in Part One: Chapter IV?

2. Dealing with Olwyn for three years, Malcolm saw none of the expected ________ in her character?

3. 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 ___________.

4. When did Sylvia Plath die?

5. In 1952, William Stanley Merwin's first book of poetry was published under what title?

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